Lock, stock, and barrel
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Popular term used prodominately in the UK and North America meaning 'all', 'total', 'everything'. The term itself derives from the components of a musket; the 'Lock' being the firing mechanism, 'Stock' being the wooden butt-end of the gun and 'Barrel; being cylindrical component, concurring 'all' the components of the gun.
The Term was first recorded in the letters of Sir Walter Scott in 1817, in the line "Like the High-landman's gun, she wants stock, lock, and barrel, to put her into repair".
It is however thought that this term evolved into a popular saying some years before in England.
