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
Ducey's team took it over lock, stock and barrel.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2021
He was serious about the shipping of European opera, lock, stock and barrel.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2018
“It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel; that’s what it be, an’ nowt else.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
