soup to nuts

idiom

US, informal
: covering every detail or part of something
The book provides a soup to nuts look at the current political scene.
The entire procedure from soup to nuts is changing.

Examples of soup to nuts in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With success from the last Super Bowl adding dozens of clients to Levy’s roster, the company has been all in on the upcoming game for months, cooking up menu offerings in its Chicago test kitchen, vetting everything from soup to nuts. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024 Chery explained that their services run from soup to nuts. Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023 And from 2016 to 2023, Barry’s writing has been extraordinary from soup to nuts. Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023 Books devoted to a solitary item, dubbed microhistories, are a relatively recent genre yet already an industry, generating volumes on everything from salt to pencils, rats to bananas and, yes, soup to nuts. Karen Heller, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022 The whole thing takes 15-30 minutes, soup to nuts. Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022 Genius, from soup to nuts. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Nov. 2021 Another magic gator moment was having a front-row seat to the soup to nuts (pardon the pun) courtship of a reptilian love affair. Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 7 May 2021 But soup to nuts – starting with O'Brien – this looks pretty disastrous from 30,000 feet. Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 2 May 2021

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“Soup to nuts.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20to%20nuts. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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