kitchen sink
noun
1- a sink in a kitchen, used for washing dishes and preparing food厨房洗涤池：
the traditional view of women as dedicated housewives tied to the kitchen sink is all but extinct.
认为妇女应作为尽心尽职的家庭主妇整天在厨房洗刷不停的传统观点几乎已不复存在。
1.1
- as modifier(of art forms) characterized by great realism in the depiction of drab or sordid subjects. The term is most used of post-war British drama, such as John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) and Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959), which uses working-class domestic settings rather than the drawing rooms of conventional middle-class drama, and of a short-lived school of British social realist painters.激进现实主义的（艺术形式上以描绘了无生气和灰暗凄凉的题材的强烈现实主义为特征, 该词语多用于指战后英国戏剧以及短命的英国社会现实主义画派; 激进现实主义的戏剧, 如约翰·奥斯本的《愤怒的回顾》[1956]和阿诺德·维斯克的《根》[1959], 这些戏剧以工人阶级家庭, 而不是传统中产阶级的客厅为背景）。
短语
everything but the kitchen sink
- humorous everything imaginable能想像到的一切。