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lock, stock, and barrel

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lock, stock, and barrel
Cliché everything. We had to move everything out of the house—lock, stock, and barrel. We lost everything—lock, stock, and barrel—in the fire.
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lock, stock, and barrel
including all or every part of something He's been pressing for the organization to move, lock, stock, and barrel, from Paris to Brussels.
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lock, stock, and barrel
taking or including everything The soldiers received orders that they were to move, lock, stock and barrel, some 600 miles west.
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It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel, that's what it be and nowt else.
 
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