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noun

  1. a lock that is enclosed in a wooden case
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


lock, stock, and barrel

  1. The whole of anything: 鈥淥ur new manager wants to reorganize the entire operation, lock, stock, and barrel.鈥 The lock, stock, and barrel are the three parts of a rifle.
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Idioms and Phrases

The 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鈥攖he lock or firing mechanism, the stock or handle, and the barrel or tube. [Early 1800s]
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Example Sentences

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鈥淭he larger schools in the larger towns and cities just bought that lock, stock and barrel, and they ended their programs.鈥

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鈥淭hey鈥檝e always seen us doing the thing with one team, we stick with our people. If we say we鈥檙e coming or we say we鈥檙e joining in, you have us lock, stock and barrel.鈥

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Kennedy鈥檚 previous claims otherwise were clearly a total fiction that the court bought lock, stock, and barrel.

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Hun Manet, educated at Western institutions including the West Point military academy in the United States, would not want to be "owned lock stock and barrel" by another country, Osius said, a reference to Cambodia's close ties to U.S. rival China.

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"All of that is pretty lock, stock and barrel evidence of obstruction of justice."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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