everything but the kitchen sink

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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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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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And so he looked at her, smiled, and offered a polite “Is everything okay?”
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But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.
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So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
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Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
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