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run the gamut

  1. To cover a whole range: “The students' reactions to the novel ran the gamut from delight to loathing.”


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Extend over an entire range, as in His music runs the gamut from rock to classical . This expression alludes to the medieval musical scale of Guido d'Arezzo, gamut being a contraction of gamma and ut , the lowest and highest notes respectively. [Mid-1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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