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Literally, “with child and bastard”. Hence, the expression originally means "with all legitimate and illegitimate children", i.e. with a large entourage. However, this meaning is inscrutable to the contemporary German speaker because the word Kegel is now obsolete in the aforementioned sense.
Angelina Jolie und Brad Pitt sind mit Kind und Kegel in Nizza angekommen.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have arrived in Nice with the whole family.
Die Israeliten zogen mit Kind und Kegel von Ägypten nach Palästina.
The Israelites moved from Egypt to Palestine with everyone and everything they had.
1957 October 17, Willy Wenzke, “Die Japaner eroberten Paris”, in Die Zeit:
Unbeeindruckt von der schwelenden Regierungskrise strömten die Franzosen – buchstäblich mit Kind und Kegel – zehn Tage zum "Grand Palais" an den Champs-Elysees, um die Parade der dort dekorativ zur Schau gestellten Personenwagen aller führenden Automobilfabriken der Welt abzunehmen.
Unimpressed by the ongoing government crisis, the French flocked – literally with the whole family – for ten days to the Grand Palais on the Champs-Elysees to take in the parade of decoratively displayed passenger cars from all the world's leading automobile factories.
Am Friedrichstraßenbunker lungern sie mit Kind und Kegel, mit Taschen und Flaschen, warten auf Bomben, auf Alarm, warten geduldig vor verschlossenen Toren.
Families linger with all their possessions at the bunker in Friedrichstrasse, with bags and bottles, waiting for the bombs, for the alarm, waiting patiently in front of the locked gates.
