lock, stock and barrel

短语

完全地

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The entirety of a thing, with nothing omitted.

    不可数
adv.
  1. 1.

    Entirely, completely.

    They want to buy the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel.

词源

From the three principal parts of a flintlock. The explanation that it refers to all of a shopkeeper’s possessions—the lock to the door, the stock in trade and the items stored in barrels—is fanciful. First attested in an 1817 letter by the Scottish novelist Walter Scott (see quotation).

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