kitchen sink quarter
n.— «Most of the banks will write off in the third and fourth quarter just about everything they can write off—what I call kitchen sink quarters.…But 2008 should be a pretty good year.» —“Moving parts in banking system reversing course” by Bill Barnhart Chicago Tribune Sept. 14, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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