lock stock and barrel
The whole thing
Lock, stock, and barrel means entirely or completely—the whole thing without exception.
The phrase names the three main components of a gun: the firing mechanism, the wooden body, and the tube.
To buy something lock, stock, and barrel is to take all of it: They moved the operation to Texas lock, stock, and barrel.
- all-inclusiveCovering every element
- entiretyThe whole of something
- whole shebangThe complete package
- kit and caboodleEntire collection together
- hook line and sinkerCompletely and without reservation
sum total · bag and baggage · inclusiveness · universality · soup to nuts · plenitude · comprehensiveness · the works · everything but the kitchen sink · root and branch · integration · in its entirety · top to bottom · wholeness · parts · aggregate · whole enchilada · the whole nine yards
lock stock and barrelpartially
To an incomplete extent
in part · piecemeal · incompletely · bit by bit · halfway
lock stock and barrelhalfheartedly
Without real interest
tentatively · reservedly · conditionally · hedging one's bets · noncommittally
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