kitchen-sink

kitchen-sink

Showing or pertaining to the lives of common, everyday people. (Always used before a noun.) You can see that people are becoming less interested in kitchen-sink television, wanting something more thrilling or fantastical. I've tried my hand at writing science fiction, but kitchen-sink novels seem to be the only thing I'm good at.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • come from far and wide
  • hoi polloi, the
  • along the beaten track
  • beaten
  • couple
  • couple of
  • a couple of (people or things)
  • big and bold
  • force of numbers
  • chief
References in periodicals archive
"The trouble is that the BBC is run by women and it shows soap operas, cooking, quizzes and kitchen-sink plays."
'Women light years behind'
And the tone shifts back and forth from Mike Leigh-inspired kitchen-sink drama to upper-crust BBC soap opera.
Pretender
Yet for truly rudderless, kitchen-sink hysteria, drunk on its own unassailable righteousness, it's hard to beat James Garbarino and Claire Bedard's Parents UnderSiege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life.
Teen-Demon Tracts: Why baby-boomer parents fear their children
Our on-set spy says: "Charlotte's totally outdone Jadene Bircham, Heather Swan and the rest with this and there's a lot of bitching going on." Talk about a kitchen-sink drama!
3AM: Charlotte Mears's
Call it kitchen-sink electronica: New Yorker Reuben's debut is an unpredictable collage of samples and real instruments that's urban and elemental at the same time.
Unsigned, they deliver: in this corporate climate, having a record deal is way overrated. These six independent CDs are worth your time. (The Music Issue)
CRITICS of Labour MP Sion Simon's spoof of the David Cameron kitchen-sink video should chill out a little.
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Cyber-nit Si
The same actors play figures from the Faust legend (folk-pop singer Suzzy Roche makes a delicious devil) as well as characters from Olga's in a style closer to dance than to kitchen-sink drama.
Faust meets the info age