kitchen-sinking

See also: kitchen sinking

English

Etymology

From kitchen sink (noun) +‎ -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the acts of doing things), referring to terms like everything but the kitchen sink and throw the kitchen sink at. The term is attested earlier than kitchen sink (verb).[1]

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Noun

kitchen-sinking (plural kitchen-sinkings)

  1. The act of raising unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
  2. (business) The act or practice of releasing a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.

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  1. ^ “kitchen-sinking, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “kitchen-sinking, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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