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:

    “When a daughter tries suicide
    and the chimney falls down like a drunk
    and the dog chews her tail off
    and the kitchen blows up its shiny kettle
    and the vacuum cleaner swallows its bag
    and the toilet washes itself in tears ...”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)