KITCHEN SINK Definition & Meaning

kitchen sink

noun

the final item imaginable on any extensive list of usually disparate items:
He packed everything for his trip except the kitchen sink.

kitchen-sink

[ kich-uhn-singk ]

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adjective

marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements:
a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.

kitchen sink

noun

a sink in a kitchen for washing dishes, vegetables, etc
everything but the kitchen sink
everything that can be conceived of
modifier denoting a type of drama or painting of the 1950s depicting the sordid aspects of domestic reality

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of kitchen sink¹

1870–75, for literal sense

Origin of kitchen sink²

First recorded in 1940–45

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Currently football people only think about time in quite a limited way: how long we have to hold on to the lead, when the first substitution should be made, when to throw the kitchen sink.

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From a kitchen sink drama focused around a young couple in Sheffield, the film showed society breaking down as nuclear winter sets in.

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When Ali beat Foreman in their only meeting in Zaire, he hit Ali with everything, including the kitchen sink, for seven exhausting rounds.

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An official with the EPA told me the Trump administration, working with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, essentially threw everything but the kitchen sink at the president’s cleanup directive.

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Scotland were going to throw the kitchen sink at them and the next three points would have killed the game.

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kitchen police kitchen tea

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