英语词汇lock stock and barrel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lock, stock, and barrel. The firing mechanism, or lock (by which the charge is exploded); the stock (to which the lock and barrel are attached); and the barrel (the tube through which bullets are discharged) are the three components of a firearm that make up the whole gun. Thus the expression lock, stock, and barrel means the whole works, the whole of anything. The saying is an Americanism first recorded in Thomas Halibur- ton’s Sam Slick stories (1843), but likely goes back to the mus- kets of the American Revolution. However, the expression might also be rooted in the lock on a country store’s door, the stock, or goods, inside, and even the barrel on which business was often transacted.

词汇	lock stock and barrel
词源	lock, stock, and barrel. The firing mechanism, or lock (by which the charge is exploded); the stock (to which the lock and barrel are attached); and the barrel (the tube through which bullets are discharged) are the three components of a firearm that make up the whole gun. Thus the expression lock, stock, and barrel means the whole works, the whole of anything. The saying is an Americanism first recorded in Thomas Halibur- ton’s Sam Slick stories (1843), but likely goes back to the mus- kets of the American Revolution. However, the expression might also be rooted in the lock on a country store’s door, the stock, or goods, inside, and even the barrel on which business was often transacted.
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