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

Rather than assemble a soup-to-nuts tale hamstrung by chronology, he shrewdly offers up her story as an all-star revue about her ascent.

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ServiceTitan counts about 8,000 contracting firms as customers, providing a soup-to-nuts software package that can manage booking appointments, generating estimates and processing invoices as well as payroll and dispatching workers.

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Two decades later, that idea has morphed into a Glendale company called ServiceTitan, which last year served some 8,000 plumbing, HVAC, janitorial and other firms with a soup-to-nuts software suite — and now plans to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker “TTAN.”

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

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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.

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