| 单词 | everything but the kitchen stove |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseverything but the kitchen stove 2. everything but the kitchen stove and variants: everything imaginable. Cf. everything but the kitchen sink at kitchen sink n. and adj. Phrases 1a. 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 1897 Evening Telegram (N.Y.) 25 May 2/6 Two thieves..carried away nearly everything except the kitchen stove. 1928 Public Opinion 19 Oct. 371/1 Everything but the kitchen stove, as our idiom has it, is likely to bob up for notice. 1959 Listener 8 Jan. 63/2 The assumption that, since Christmas is the only time children go to the theatre, they must therefore be given everything, including the kitchen-stove. 1964 C. Dale Other People x. 178 There's Mum, hair tinted, face done up, everything on bar the kitchen stove. 2012 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 28 July t4 Undertrained chefs devising dishes that cry, ‘Look Ma, I'm cooking!’, and everything popped on the plate except the kitchen stove. < as lemmas |
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