| 词汇 | lock, stock, and barrel |
| 释义 | Idiom lock, stock, and barrel Theme: EVERYTHING everything. (Fixed order.)We had to move everything out of the house—lock, stock, and barrel.We lost everything—lock, stock, and barrel—in the fire. Idiom lock, stock, and barrel including all or every part of something.He's been pressing for the organization to move, lock, stock, and barrel, from Paris to Brussels. lock, stock, and barrelEntirely 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. lock, stock, and barrelCliché everything. We had to move everything out of the house—lock, stock, and barrel. We lost everything—lock, stock, and barrel—in the fire. lock, stock, and barrelThe entirety; all of something. For example, Jean moved out of the house, lock, stock, and barrel. This expression alludes to the three elements of a firearm-the lock or firing mechanism, the stock or handle, and the barrel or tube. [Early 1800s] lock, stock, and barrelCOMMON You use lock, stock, and barrel to talk about every part of something. It would have been much easier for us to have shut the business down lock, stock and barrel. He has moved down from the north-east, lock, stock and barrel. Note: The three main parts which make up a complete gun are the lock, the stock, and the barrel. lock, stock, and barrelincluding everything; completely.Lock, stock, and barrel refers literally to the complete mechanism of a firearm. ˌlock, stock and ˈbarrelincluding everything; completely: They were all emigrating so they were selling everything they had, lock, stock and barrel.The lock, stock and barrel are the three main parts of a rifle. lock, stock, and barrel To the greatest or most complete extent; wholly: an estate that was auctioned off lock, stock, and barrel. lock, stock, and barrelThe 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. See also hook, line, and sinker. lock, stock, and barrelThe whole thing. A musket was made up of a flintlock mechanism that produced the power to launch the ball, a wooden stock that held the lock and the barrel, and the barrel through which the musket ball was propelled en route to its target. Put all three together and you have the whole shooting match. The phrase was first used in the early 19th century to mean an entire entity or quantity. |
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