soup-to-nuts

[ soop-tuh-nuhts ]

adjective

1. (of a meal) complete or impressive in number of courses.
2. Informal. complete; all-inclusive.

soup to nuts

1. To include or cover everything, as in a full, multicourse meal: “The lecture on weather forecasting covered everything from soup to nuts.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of soup-to-nuts¹

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40

Example Sentences

The primary challenge to Bost isn’t a soup-to-nuts Gaetz operation.

From Slate

It might remove incentive for the kind of boring soup-to-nuts biopics that used to show up a lot at the Oscars, though they’ve fallen off lately, and bring more inventive biographical films, like the ones we’ve been lucky enough to see this year, to the foreground.

From New York Times

It’s a historical drama where you learn a lot about Rustin, but it doesn’t do the sort of soup-to-nuts.

From Los Angeles Times

In his dutiful, soup-to-nuts book about the movie and its legacy, Segaloff, who was publicity director for a Boston theater chain where the movie showed during its original run, addresses the question of what made so many “Exorcist” viewers throw up.

From Los Angeles Times

Because consent decrees seek to correct systemic problems, they often take a soup-to-nuts approach, from rewriting policies on when officers can use force to revamping everything from internal affairs investigations to cadet training.

From New York Times