What does Lock, Stock, and Barrel mean?
Definitions for Lock, Stock, and Barrel
lock, stock, and bar·rel
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Dictionary of Nautical Terms
lock, stock, and barrel
An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole.
Etymology and Origins
Lock, Stock, and Barrel
A sportsman’s phrase for the whole of a thing, in allusion to the three parts of a gun. In the modern sense it is used to imply the complete discomfiture of an adversary in argument or of one utterly outwitted in his schemes.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Lock, Stock, and Barrel in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Lock, Stock, and Barrel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Lock, Stock, and Barrel in a Sentence
...The practicalities of hiring or moving 1,000-5,000 staff to comparatively small markets in Ireland, France or Germany were so spectacularly difficult, they couldn't envisage moving lock, stock and barrel, nOT ALL OR NOTHING.
Kevin McCarthy owns George Santos, lock, stock and barrel, if George Santos wasn’t seated, what would the math have been for Speaker McCarthy? He would have had to flip another vote or get two people to vote ‘present.’.
The left has captured the minds of an entire generation of kids, if you’re by default through our education system starting in elementary school, you are getting a lock stock and barrel progressive education that prepares you to be dependent on government.
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