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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everything but the kitchen sink

However, try not to pack everything but the kitchen sink!

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Or is it everything but the kitchen sink?

From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2022

Ockham's Razor is useful in these situations by challenging research where "everything but the kitchen sink" is tested against one or more outcomes.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2021

It is crude, relentless and combative — less “a slap in the face of public taste,” as the Russian Futurists would say, than everything but the kitchen sink hurled at viewers’ heads.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2018

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 H. Beam Piper

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