from soup to nuts

English

Etymology

From the order of courses in a formal full course dinner, which typically begins with soup and ends with a dessert such as nuts.

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

from soup to nuts

(US) From the first course of a meal to the last.
(idiomatic, US) From beginning to end; throughout.
- We went through the whole agenda, from soup to nuts.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:
  [That cat] is a broken reed to lean on in the matter of catching mice. My own acquaintance with him is a longstanding one, and I have come to know his psychology from soup to nuts. He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep.

Synonyms

(from beginning to end): from A to Z
"from soda to hock" – from the beginning to the end of a round in the banking card game called Faro

Related terms

soup-to-nuts

Translations

from the first course of the meal to the last

Serbo-Croatian: od predjela do deserta

from beginning to end

French: de A à Z (fr)
Latin: ab ovo usque ad mala
Serbo-Croatian: od glave do repa

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Latin: ^{(please verify)} ab ovo usque ad mala (Literally: from the egg to the apples)