kitchen sink
the final item imaginable on any extensive list of usually disparate items: He packed everything for his trip except the kitchen sink.
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marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements: a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.
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How to use kitchen sink in a sentence
It works best on flat surfaces, such as in the kitchen sink, to generate the vacuum pressure necessary to release a clog.
Hints From Heloise: Meditation can help anyone deal with stress and anxiety | Heloise Heloise | June 17, 2021 | Washington PostCleaning your floors, bath tiles, and kitchen sinks can go so much quicker with the help of a great spin scrubber.
Best spin scrubber: For floors so clean, they squeak | PopSci Commerce Team | March 16, 2021 | Popular-ScienceUntil the day the kitchen sink fell apart in my hands at the vegan doughnut shop.
The Toxicity of Restaurant Kitchens Is Exactly Why I Never Reported Abuses | Lindsey Danis | February 4, 2021 | EaterThe habit is so ingrained now that she estimates it only takes her family 10 to 15 minutes to clear the table, load the dishes and scrub the kitchen sink.
5 simple ways to get your home in order, from ‘Clean Mama’ Becky Rapinchuk | Lindsey Roberts | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostInstead, countries threw the kitchen sink at the virus, enacting many measures simultaneously.
Coronavirus shutdowns don’t need to be all or nothing | Jonathan Lambert | November 25, 2020 | Science News
I used to fantasize about emptying his Smirnoff bottle in the kitchen sink and filling it back up with water.
No one in this disturbing mini-kitchen sink drama ends up looking good.
As ‘Punishment,’ Clippers Bigot Donald Sterling Could Make $1 Billion | Robert Silverman | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA lot of crickets said the film was chaotic—kitchen-sink school of drama.
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview | Alex Belth | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIs it hard writing the second season after putting everything and the kitchen sink into the first?
Inside the Obsessive, Strange Mind of True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto | Andrew Romano | February 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI just finished a film here in LA called kitchen sink, which is again something very new to me and very different.
Then I got my new watering-pot, filled it at the kitchen sink, and gently watered the hopeful earth.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonS, Pipe to conduct cold water to a cock over the kitchen sink.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy | Catherine Esther BeecherCame to my house to fix a pipe under the kitchen sink—wouldn't quit at six o'clock.
Frenzied Fiction | Stephen Leacock"Michael Doyle, the plumber, told me to come here and look at the kitchen sink," they heard.
The Girl Scouts' Good Turn | Edith LavellThe kitchen sink may also be of any type you prefer but let there be light where it is hung.
If You're Going to Live in the Country | Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley
British Dictionary definitions for kitchen sink
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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