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including all or every part of something (I'm selling my house, lock, stock, and barrel with all the furniture and appliances. • We had to move our things lock, stock, and barrel to the other side of the country.  cambridge.org); including every part of something (He moved the whole company, lock, stock, and barrel, to Mexico. • The Knolls have owned the town lock, stock, and barrel for 15 years. • They sold everything lock, stock, and barrel. ldoceonline.com); including everything; completely (The place is owned lock, stock, and barrel by an oil company • She returned from a vacation in Greece and found that someone had moved in, lock, stock, and barrel - complete with redecorating. • It then essentially hands the entire thing, lock, stock, and barrel, to this unelected and unaccountable committee. • If they were to sell off the operating agency lock, stock, and barrel, and lease the use of the tunnels and stations for, say, a 99-year period, there might be hope. • But in 1989, the most likely scenario was that Japan would buy us all lock, stock, and barrel. • You're ‘special interests,’ you understand (every major candidate uses the phrase); you own the White House and Congress lock, stock, and barrel. • But then, neither had he planned to pick up his company and move it lock, stock, and barrel to San Jose, California, from Cleveland, Ohio, last fall. • Coming of age, as it were, as the business model replaced earlier social models, they bought into the business model lock, stock, and barrel. • It's a very simplistic notion to assume that the world is made up of some abstract group called industry that has, lock, stock, and barrel, the same policy perspectives on any issue. • The very body that failed Auckland so miserably is now being rewarded with the keys - lock, stock, and barrel - to fix the place. • A New Zealander could actually buy it lock, stock, and barrel. lexico.com); completely or including every part of something (It would have been much easier for us to have shut the business down lock, stock and barrel, and to have saved our cash and not paid a dividend. collinsdictionary.com); entirely or completely (Much to his wife's surprise, he cleaned out the basement, lock, stock, and barrel. • When my son came home from his football game, he was so hungry that he ate everything in the refrigerator, lock, stock, and barrel. thefreedictionary.com); including everything; completely (They were all emigrating so they were selling everything they had, lock, stock and barrel. thefreedictionary.com); the whole thing; all of something (Originally this term meant all three elements of a firearm—the lock or firing mechanism, the stock or handle, and the barrel or tube. It began to be transferred to the entirety of anything in the early nineteenth century, although for a time it was also put as stock, lock, and barrel. thefreedictionary.com); a thing in its entirety, with nothing omitted (They want to buy the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel. wiktionary.org) |
