I was reading an article that mentioned "kitchen sink philosophy".
What does it mean and where does it come from ?
I would provide more context if I could, but I lost the article's URL :/
UPDATE: I found this example: "You only have to look at Perl to see what happens when the kitchen sink mentality collides with a programming language."
Peter Mortensen
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Wiktionary has "everything but the kitchen sink":
- (idiomatic) Almost everything, whether needed or not.
It includes an example:
She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.
donald remero
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Kitchen sink philosophy is a humorous reference to an "all-in, all-inclusive" approach to a task that indiscriminately incorporates a lot of junk along with whatever jems that it might also include.
It is a play on the stock phrase "everything but the kitchen sink." This phrase is a derogatory reference to situations in which "everything" is indiscriminately included with a plan, a project, an idea, a piece of legislation, etc. with little or no regard to the practical or aesthetic consequences of the resulting clutter or mess.
The kitchen sink as a metaphor can be taken in two ways: 1) iconically, as a hodgepodge pile of "dirty" dishes, or 2) conceptually, as repository connected to a "drain" that is under normal conditions specifically designated for unwanted and/or leftover rubbish, slop, filth and waste.
The most common play on this stock phrase is to say something like: "They put everything in there including the kitchen sink."