from soup to nuts 的定义
- Also, from A to Z or start to finish or stem to stern. From beginning to end, throughout, as in We went through the whole agenda, from soup to nuts, or She had to learn a whole new system from A to Z, or It rained from start to finish, or We did over the whole house from stem to stern. The first expression, with its analogy to the first and last courses of a meal, appeared in slightly different forms from the 1500s on; the precise wording here dates only from the mid-1900s. The second expression alludes to the first and last letters of the Roman alphabet; see also alpha and omega. The third comes from racing and alludes to the entire course of the race; it dates from the mid-1800s. The last variant is nautical, alluding to the front or stem, and rear or stern, of a vessel.
from soup to nuts 近义词
等同于 fully
from soup to nuts 的近义词 20 个
- absolutely
- entirely
- perfectly
- positively
- quite
- thoroughly
- totally
- wholly
- all out
- all the way
- altogether
- every inch
- from a to z
- heart and soul
- intimately
- outright
- royal
- through and through
- utterly
- without exaggeration
from soup to nuts 的反义词 5 个
更多from soup to nuts例句
- What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
- That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
- It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
- The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
- There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
- "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
- Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
- To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.