Kitchen-sink is a verb, referring to announcing all of a company's bad financial news at one time.

Kitchen-sink是个动词，指将某公司负面的财务信息一次性全部公布出来。

 

This word is based on the idiom "everything but the kitchen sink", which hails from World War II. (Back then it referred to a heavy bombardment in which it appeared the enemy was firing everything but the kitchen sink.) The verb is based on a sensible strategy: If a company must divulge¹ some bad news in its financial results, then it might as well bring all of its fiscal² skeletons out of the accounting³ closet. The reasoning is that although the company's share price may drop a bit, it will drop far less than if the company announced each bit of bad news separately.

这个词是基于向二战致意的习语“everything but the kitchen sink”(尽其所能地，几乎包括了所有事)。(在当时，该习语是指在敌人发起的猛烈轰炸之后，除了厨房的水槽以外所有的东西都是敌人攻击的目标。)这个动词基于一种非常明智的策略：如果一家公司必须公布一些财务方面的坏消息，那它或许也要把所有财会方面不可告人的秘密公之于众。这其中的逻辑是，虽然公司股价也许会下跌一点，但其幅度要比分几次一点点将坏消息公布出来的幅度小得多。

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