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everything but the kitchen sink	Almost everything, whether needed or not.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
loose lips sink ships	Careless talk releasing sensitive information can have damaging consequences	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
everything and the kitchen sink	Alternative form of everything but the kitchen sink.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
kitchen sink	A miscellany or a miscellaneous item.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
for crying in the sink!	An expression of frustration	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
kitchen sink	Used other than as an idiom: see kitchen, sink. A sink in a kitchen used for washing dishes and preparing food.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sink in	Become clear in one's mind.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sink like a stone	To completely fail.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sink one's teeth into	To become involved in; particularly in an enthusiastic manner.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sink or swim	To fail or succeed, no matter what.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sink or Swim	To be responsible or get failed or success for one’s own actions without involving anybody	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in terram demergi	to sink into the earth.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
marche ou crève	comparable to the English idiom sink or swim	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
navem, classem deprimere, mergere	to sink a ship, a fleet.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quick sand	The kind of sand that when you step in it, you sink. The more you move, the faster you sink. It can be deadly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take on water	To slowly fill with water, as due to a leak or being washed by high waves; to begin to sink.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)