Brewer's: Rif

or Rifle (French). Avoir rifle et rafle. To have everything. Also, the negative, N'avoir ni rif ni raf (to have nothing).

Helas! j'ai goute miseraigne, J'ai rifle et rafle, et roigne et taigne.

Les Miracles de Ste. Geneviène

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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