everything but the kitchen sink

Idioms  

1. Also, everything under the sun. Including just about everything, whether appropriate or not. For example, Our new car has every feature—everything but the kitchen sink. This hyperbolic term may date from the early 1900s but only became widespread in the mid-1900s. The variant employs under the sun in the sense of “everything on earth,” a usage dating from about a.d. 1000.

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Example Sentences

After he threw everything but the kitchen sink at getting out of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Musk arrived yesterday at Twitter headquarters with… a kitchen sink.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

Or is it everything but the kitchen sink?

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2022

The Chamber of Commerce has vociferously opposed the bill as an "everything but the kitchen sink collection of bad policies," and vowed to do "everything we can" to defeat it.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021

“Yes, it was close, … with everything but the kitchen sink thrown at us — and in the end, Jeff Bezos did throw in the kitchen sink, perhaps not to his benefit.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2019

They have everything but the kitchen sink in them, including enough oxygen to sustain combustion even under water or in a vacuum.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam

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