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Stock, Lock, and Barrel

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Every part, everything. Gun-maker’s phrase. “Everything is to be sold off—stock, lock, and barrel.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Stirrup (A)
Stirrup Cup
Stirrup-Oil
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Stock Exchange Slang
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