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Please explain “kitchen sink” in this sentence: This film has everything, including the kitchen sink.

My comments:

This film has all the elements that captivates an audience.

For example, it has love and betrayal. It is a rags-to-riches story. It makes you laugh and it makes you cry. It has the car chase, even if it’s not an action movie.

Things like that.

That’s what “everything, including the kitchen sink” implies.

This is a variation from the expression “everything but the kitchen sink”, meaning, well, practically everything.

This is an expression dating back to World War II, where soldiers threw everything at the enemy, including the kitchen sink.

Obviously, throwing the kitchen sink was not going to be very effective, but we get the picture. Soldiers were using every weapon or tool available to fight the enemy, giving their all. Idioms Online explains, in full:

The expression everything but the kitchen sink has been used so often that the term kitchen sink itself has become a related idiom, used as an adjective. For example, when a cell phone has everything but the kitchen sink, it has almost every feature possible, even if some of those features are completely unneeded or impractical. The company that makes this phone, then, has used a kitchen sink approach to its design, meaning that they have “thrown in every feature possible.” When such a company encounters a problem they might “throw the kitchen sink” at it, meaning they utilize all their resources to solve the problem. However it is used, the idiom tends to be hyperbolic and slightly humorous.

Also possible is the more hyperbolic variation “everything including the kitchen sink.”

According to Eric Partridge in Dictionary of Forces’ Slang, this expression was first used in a military context, describing a violent bombardment where everything is fired at the enemy “except the kitchen sink” or “including the kitchen sink.” It has been used since the early 1900’s, but only became widespread in the mid-1900’s.

Typically, of all the items in a kitchen, the sink would be the hardest to remove, as it is attached by plumbing and other means, so that “everything but the kitchen sink” is a humorous way of describing everything remotely possible. When the expression includes the kitchen sink, it uses exaggeration to intensify the meaning.

So, in short, if you give everything but the kitchen sink or everything including the kitchen sink, you’re giving your all. You’re giving everything you’ve got, good or bad. You’re trying everything in order to solve a problem, even though some of the things you try may not be so helpful.

All right, here are media examples of “kitchen sink” in its various forms:

1. ELON MUSK, FOLLOWING his failed effort to back out of, or ostensibly get a better price on, his deal to buy Twitter unofficially commenced his reign by… entering Twitter headquarters with a sink?

The bit was, we guess, tied to the accompanying caption, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!” Maybe something like “getting rid of everything but the kitchen sink” would’ve been a better – albeit just as obvious – idiom to utilize for a guy who plans to do god knows what with everyone’s favorite/least favorite social media platform.

But, hey, what do we know? We’re not the brain geniuses who agreed to pay $44 billion for a website right before a heavy market downturn that was particularly brutal for the tech sector.

Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022

Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is expected to close on Friday, Oct. 28, capping off a surreal (or maybe quotidian, by Musk’s standards) several months of extremely online dealmaking. The deal was first struck back in April. After only a few weeks – and that aforementioned downturn in the market – Musk said he was putting the deal on hold, citing complaints about the number of spam accounts on Twitter.

Musk proceeded to ramp up his complaints, alleging that Twitter not only was underreporting the number of bots and spam accounts, but wasn’t letting him properly evaluate the situation. He officially filed to back out of the deal in July, which prompted Twitter to sue. After a few months of court filings, Musk came around at the beginning of October with a trial date looming in Delaware’s Court of Chancery.

Amidst all the Twitter shenanigans, Musk has kept himself busy with an array of other activities. Those include speaking at a MAGA donor event, denying reports that he had an affair with his friend’s wife, and dealing with reports that he secretly had twins with one of his company’s executives last year. Additionally, seven women sued Musk’s company Tesla over its alleged culture of sexual harassment.

- Elon Musk’s Weird Bit About Finally Buying Twitter Involved a Sink, RollingStone.com, October 26, 2022.

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