What is the meaning and story behind "everything but a kitchen sink", "as poor as a church mouse"?

Question

What about "point lollipop at a furnace"?

Answer 1

everything but the kitchen sink and similar phr.: everything imaginable.

1948 Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 106 Kitchen sink, used only in the phrase indicating intense bombardment-'They chucked everything they'd got at us except, or including, the kitchen sink.' 'The kitchen stove' was also used.

1958 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Oct. 4/4 Gen. Trudeau said the military services often slow down development of new weapons 'because we are such perfectionists that we want everything but the kitchen sink in a weapon'.

1965 'E. McBain' Doll x. 128 Brown began searching. 'Everything in here but the kitchen sink,' he said.

1966 - Eighty Million Eyes xi. 189 We'll throw everything but the god~d**n kitchen sink at you.

1967 L. White Crimshaw Memo. (1968) iii. 61 He goes out and buys himself an XKE Jaguar..it had everything but the kitchen sink on it.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board...

Also, everything under the sun. Including just about everything, whether appropriate or not. For example, Our new car has every feature--everything but the kitchen sink. This hyperbolic term may date from the early 1900s but only became widespread in the mid-1900s. The variant employs under the sun in the sense of "everything on earth," a usage dating from about a.d. 1000.

http://www.answers.com/everything%20but%...

   1. (idiomatic) Almost everything, whether needed or not.

          She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/everything...

Answer 2

1- Everything but a kitchen sink: Almost all that you can imagine of something, everything..........

2- As poor as a church mouse: To be very poor..

Answer 3

Everything but the kitchen sink means that almost anything available is at a particular location, like at a store or second-hand shop.  As poor as a church mouse means really, really poor.  Think about it, no mouse is going to be rich and one who lives in a church would be even poorer because traditionally people who devote their lives to the church don't have much money.  I've never heard the expression "point lollipop at a furnace".  It doesn't make much sense to me.

Answer 4

The kitchen sink is bolted to the wall so "everything but the kitchen sink" means basically "everything that isnt bolted down".

I dont know about the church mouse though.I thought the Church had heaps of cash.

Anyways, gotta go 'cause i'm busier than a one legged man in a bum kicking competition