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
- (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
Related terms
Translations
from the first course of the meal to the last
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