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lock stock and barrel

adverb as in hook, line, and sinker

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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.”

“They’ve always seen us doing the thing with one team, we stick with our people. If we say we’re coming or we say we’re joining in, you have us lock, stock and barrel.”

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

From Slate

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.

From Reuters

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

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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