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lock stock and barrel









ADVERB
hook, line, and sinker
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WEAK
to a limited extent






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“The larger schools in the larger towns and cities just bought that lock, stock and barrel, and they ended their programs.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

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

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2023

That year the Communist Party decreed China's state-owned housing stock be sold off, lock, stock and barrel.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2022

Ducey's team took it over lock, stock and barrel.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021

We sold the zoo, lock, stock and barrel.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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