Kitchen Sink

Kitchen sink is a term often used in the phrase everything but the kitchen sink

Kitchen sink may also refer to:

  • A sink in a kitchen for washing dishes, vegetables, etc.
  • Kitchen Sink, a 1989 short film by Alison Maclean
  • Kitchen Sink (magazine), a quarterly arts and culture magazine in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Kitchen sink chemistry, a synonym for amateur chemistry
  • Kitchen sink department, the Percussion section of an orchestra
  • Kitchen Sink Press, an independent comic book publisher
  • Kitchen sink realism, a British cultural movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s
  • Kitchen sink syndrome, also known as "scope creep" in project management
  • Kitchen sink regression, a usually pejorative term for a regression analysis which uses a long list of possible independent variables

Famous quotes containing the words kitchen and/or sink:

    “Ah done been in sorrow’s kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “From low to high doth dissolution climb,
    And sink from high to low, along a scale
    Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)