everything but the kitchen sink
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Etymology edit
Originally military slang, 1944.[1]
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Noun edit
everything but the kitchen sink (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) Almost everything, whether needed or not.
- Synonyms: everything under the sun; see also Thesaurus:everything
- She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.
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Almost everything, whether needed or not
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “kitchen sink”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
- “everything but the kitchen sink”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “everything but the kitchen sink”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.