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.
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The cost of mounting fully original productions (soup to nuts) on the level and scale that the Playhouse does is cost prohibitive.
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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
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
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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
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
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“Soup to nuts.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20to%20nuts. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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