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:

    “On the kitchen wall a flash
    of shadow:
    swift pilgrimage
    of pigeons, a spiral
    celebration of air, of sky-deserts.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse longest to help with the dishes. The sink is the great symbol of the bloodiness of family life.”
    —Julian Mitchell (20th century)