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Dec 11, 2009
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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Stock, Lock, and Barrel

Every part, everything. Gun-maker's phrase.

“Everything is to be sold off- stock, lock, and barrel.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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