ご指名質問回答：kitchen sink day
UG先生よりご指名質問を賜りましたので挑戦致します。まず赤字のkitchen sinkと以前先生が類似表現として取り上げられたイディオム（cf. everything but the kitchen sink - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から）との関係は、kitchen sinkが、everything but the kitchen sinkの省略形であると考えられます。次に手持ちの辞書でeverything but the kitchen sinkを引いて確認してみますと「（くだけて･おどけて）（思いつく限り）何でもかんでも、いっさいがっさい（の物）」（『Wisdom英和辞典(第3版)』三省堂)と掲載されていることから、気象予報士が用いた赤字の部分は「（雪、雨、嵐など）何でもありの天気の日」と解釈できます。ちょうど東京都大島あたりを通過する南岸低気圧と同じではっきりとした予想ができない天気模様ということでしょう。（Shou-VR*）
Yet more severe weather is expected to hit flood-stricken parts of the UK later, as the prime minister continues a tour of the worst-affected areas.
Fourteen severe flood warnings remain in place in Berkshire and Surrey, and two in Somerset.
And there are "be aware" warnings of rain and snow for parts of Wales.
The Environment Agency board, meanwhile, has backed embattled chairman Lord Smith.
BBC weather forecaster Laura Gilchrist said Tuesday would be a "kitchen sink day of weather" with "a bit of everything" expected.
The Met Office has severe weather warning in place for rain across parts of south Wales and south-west England, cautioning that, "with ongoing flooding in some places, any further rain will only add to the problems".
There are also two warnings of snow for Tuesday - covering Scotland, northern England and NorthernIreland - and a warning of ice for Northern Ireland.
And there is a stronger amber warning - meaning "be prepared" - for wind for Wednesday with "possible gusts of 80mph or more in exposed areas" areas of the South West.
Laura Gilchrist said deep areas of low pressure on Wednesday could bring, potentially, the strongest wind so far this winter.
