from soda to hock
English
Etymology
In reference to the card game faro, in which the soda is the first card and the hock the last.
Prepositional phrase
from soda to hock
- From start to finish.
- 2008, Richard E. Baker, Letters from Across the Big Divide (page 56)
- If two different juries that sat in on the court dealings from soda to hock can't see the same verdict, don't trust no cowhand seventy-one winters gone to judge him.
- 2008, Richard E. Baker, Letters from Across the Big Divide (page 56)