lock, stock, and barrel

Cliché everything. We had to move everything out of the house—lock, stock, and barrel. We lost everything—lock, stock, and barrel—in the fire.

taking or including everything The soldiers received orders that they were to move, lock, stock and barrel, some 600 miles west.

including all or every part of something He's been pressing for the organization to move, lock, stock, and barrel, from Paris to Brussels.

The entirety; all of something. For example, Jean moved out of the house, lock, stock, and barrel. This expression alludes to the three elements of a firearm-the lock or firing mechanism, the stock or handle, and the barrel or tube. [Early 1800s]

To the greatest or most complete extent; wholly: an estate that was auctioned off lock, stock, and barrel.

The whole thing. A musket was made up of a flintlock mechanism that produced the power to launch the ball, a wooden stock that held the lock and the barrel, and the barrel through which the musket ball was propelled en route to its target. Put all three together and you have the whole shooting match. The phrase was first used in the early 19th century to mean an entire entity or quantity.