kitchen-sinking
to announce all the bad news, all at once
TRANSLATION
kitchen-sinking = wenn man alle schlechten Nachrichten bzw. Hiobsbotschaften auf einmal auf den Tisch legt kitchen-sinking = Ärger, Wut oder Groll, der sich über die Zeit aufgestaut hat, auf einmal los werden --- GOOGLE INDEX kitchen-sinking: approximately 20,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Tesco KITCHEN-SINKING in hope of profit rebound.
(Financial Times article headline)
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British Petroleum has just upped its estimate of costs by $7.7 billion to $39.9 billion, in what investors must hope is the second KITCHEN-SINKING exercise following the Gulf Of Mexico disaster.
(Reuters News Service)
(Financial Times article headline)
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British Petroleum has just upped its estimate of costs by $7.7 billion to $39.9 billion, in what investors must hope is the second KITCHEN-SINKING exercise following the Gulf Of Mexico disaster.
(Reuters News Service)
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kitchen-sinking
idiom
- the practice of including all possible bad news in a single press release, usually for strategic purposes
(Collins Dictionary)
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The expression "kitchen-sinking" derives from the phrase "everything but the kitchen sink," which is a way to describe something that has just about everything (My new car has everything but the kitchen sink). Kitchen-sinking is then a clever reversal of "everything but the kitchen sink."
The strategy behind kitchen-sinking is for a company to release a lot of negative news at the same time in the hope that people will be overwhelmed and not focus on any of it. This is meant to be an especially effective strategy in the era of new media because of readers' short attention spans.
Kitchen-sinking is also used in personal relationships. It involves storing up grievances, hurt feelings and complaints over time and then trying to use all of them at once to resolve a conflict. Also referred to as gunnysacking, it's as if an emotional dam has broken.
Finally, kitchen-sinking can also refer to a product or software project that accrues a huge number of features between early design and production (adding everything including the kitchen sink), making it more costly, difficult to use and to develop.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I'm not sure that intelligent investors will be impressed by kitchen-sinking exercises."
idiom
- the practice of including all possible bad news in a single press release, usually for strategic purposes
(Collins Dictionary)
---
The expression "kitchen-sinking" derives from the phrase "everything but the kitchen sink," which is a way to describe something that has just about everything (My new car has everything but the kitchen sink). Kitchen-sinking is then a clever reversal of "everything but the kitchen sink."
The strategy behind kitchen-sinking is for a company to release a lot of negative news at the same time in the hope that people will be overwhelmed and not focus on any of it. This is meant to be an especially effective strategy in the era of new media because of readers' short attention spans.
Kitchen-sinking is also used in personal relationships. It involves storing up grievances, hurt feelings and complaints over time and then trying to use all of them at once to resolve a conflict. Also referred to as gunnysacking, it's as if an emotional dam has broken.
Finally, kitchen-sinking can also refer to a product or software project that accrues a huge number of features between early design and production (adding everything including the kitchen sink), making it more costly, difficult to use and to develop.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I'm not sure that intelligent investors will be impressed by kitchen-sinking exercises."
