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Also, everything under the sun . Including just about everything, whether appropriate or not. For example, Our new car has every feature—everything but the kitchen sink . This hyperbolic term may date from the early 1900s but only became widespread in the mid-1900s. The variant employs under the sun in the sense of “everything on earth,” a usage dating from about a.d. 1000.

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