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kitchen sink
[f. kitchen n. + sink n.1 1 c.]
a. A sink in which dirty dishes, vegetables, etc., are washed. Freq. used as a symbol of women's enslavement to the kitchen.
1873Young Englishwoman May 259/3 Unwholesome smells—which I found all proceeded from (what Miss Nightingale calls) that abomination, the kitchen sink. 1930Archit. Rec. Jan. 13/1 Until a few years ago, the kitchen sink would have been made of sheet zinc fitted over a box made by the carpenter. 1969Guardian 6 Nov. 9/5 A situation in which married women find it impossible to return to work and have to return once more to the kitchen sink. 1973J. Cleary Ransom iii. 67 It was the housewives' hour... Perry Como..sang of the past; housewives dreamed with him over their kitchen sinks and unmade beds. 1973Guardian 14 Feb. 11/2 Women stayed right where they were: for the most part at the kitchen sink, or in low-paid clerical or light manual work.
b. fig.
1888Kipling Under Deodars (1889) 5 All his ideas and powers of conversation..are taken from him by this—this kitchen-sink of a Government.
c. everything but the kitchen sink and similar phr.: everything imaginable.
1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 106 Kitchen sink, used only in the phrase indicating intense bombardment—‘They chucked everything they'd got at us except, or including, the kitchen sink.’ ‘The kitchen stove’ was also used. 1958Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Oct. 4/4 Gen. Trudeau said the military services often slow down development of new weapons ‘because we are such perfectionists that we want everything but the kitchen sink in a weapon’. 1965‘E. McBain’ Doll x. 128 Brown began searching. ‘Everything in here but the kitchen sink,’ he said. 1966― Eighty Million Eyes xi. 189 We'll throw everything but the god⁓damn kitchen sink at you. 1967L. White Crimshaw Memo. (1968) iii. 61 He goes out and buys himself an XKE Jaguar..it had everything but the kitchen sink on it.
d. Used (with hyphen) attrib. or absol. to designate a group of English realistic painters of the 1950s and later, or their type of art, or a group of English realistic authors (chiefly playwrights) of the same period or their plays or publications.
1954D. Sylvester in Encounter Dec. 61 (title) The kitchen sink. Ibid. 62/1 The post-war generation takes us back from the studio to the kitchen... The kitchen sink too. Ibid. 62/2 It is evident that neither objectivity nor abstraction is the aim of the young painters of the kitchen-sink school. 1956L. McIntosh Oxford Folly 69 On the walls were several drawings and paintings of the ‘Kitchen Sink’ school of modern English painters, whose sordid subject matter contrasted with their luxurious setting. The one above the mantelpiece depicted a lavatory. 1959Listener 19 Feb. 340/3 ‘Kitchen sink’ painting is not an exclusive English phenomenon: it originated in France, with Rebeyrolle and Minaux. 1960Times 15 Mar. 13/6 Mr. Ronald Duncan is reported as saying that the English Stage Company..presents only left wing ‘kitchen sink’ drama. 1960Guardian 28 Oct. 9/5 The day of the social-realist, kitchen sink advertisement has dawned. 1963Times 16 Feb. 9/3 If the British new wave were interested only in easy money they would stick to the slag-heap and the kitchen sink. 1965Punch 26 May 762/1 The ‘Kitchen-Sink’ tag..began as descriptive heading for a post-war school of painters (nudity, violence, squalor, blasphemy, subversiveness and distortion are somehow morally OK qualities in the visual arts) and only later became a pejorative title for a school of playwrights. 1973Black World Apr. 41, I wasn't going to write any more Black ‘kitchen sink’ dramas.
So ˌkitchen-ˈsinkery.
1964Listener 16 Apr. 624/1 We've been attacked for too much pessimism, sordidness, and kitchen-sinkery. 1969B. Turner Circle of Squares i. 7 The longest-ever season of kitchen-sinkery on our stages. |