| 单词 | everything but the kitchen sink |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseverything but the kitchen sink a. everything but the kitchen sink and variants: everything imaginable. Cf. everything but the kitchen stove at kitchen stove n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > everything > everything imaginable everything but the kitchen stove1897 everything but the kitchen sink1918 1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 5 May 25/4 The stations are full of people trying to get out and the streets blocked with perambulators, bird cages and ‘everything but the kitchen sink’. 1958 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Oct. 4/4 Gen. Trudeau said the military services often slow down development of new weapons ‘because we are such perfectionists that we want everything but the kitchen sink in a weapon’. 1965 ‘E. McBain’ Doll x. 128 Brown began searching. ‘Everything in here but the kitchen sink,’ he said. 2016 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 26 Feb. 52 Ant and Dec threw everything apart from the kitchen sink into a highly entertaining return of Saturday Night Takeaway on ITV. < as lemmas |
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