soup to nuts

phrase

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

So hearing Grohl say that told me that this could be a human-experience story and not just soup to nuts, how things get made. — Alan Light, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025

James Mangold wisely avoids a birth to death, soup to nuts telling of Bob Dylan’s life story. — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024

The cost of mounting fully original productions (soup to nuts) on the level and scale that the Playhouse does is cost prohibitive. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024

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

And from 2016 to 2023, Barry’s writing has been extraordinary from soup to nuts. — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023

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