stock lock

noun

a lock that is enclosed in a wooden case

lock, stock, and barrel

The whole of anything: “Our new manager wants to reorganize the entire operation, lock, stock, and barrel.” The lock, stock, and barrel are the three parts of a rifle.

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Idioms and Phrases

The entirety; all of something. For example, Jean moved out of the house, lock, stock, and barrel. This expression alludes to the three elements of a firearm—the lock or firing mechanism, the stock or handle, and the barrel or tube. [Early 1800s]

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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.”

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“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.”

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

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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.

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

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stockless stockman

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