lock stock and barrel
Example Sentences
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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
‘Christamighty! I wouldn’t park myself behind that cash box if you was to give me the whole damn place, lock, stock, and barrel.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
