stem to stern
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Indeed as my friend David Rothkopf pointed out, it was, from stem to stern, more a lawyer’s speech than a woman’s speech, shot through with the language of law as a tool that serves no one individual, but instead advances the interests of “the people.”
From Slate
Including me, from stem to stern.
From Literature
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To allay it, I shall to-day search entire ship carefully from stem to stern.
From Literature
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It was 7:44 a.m., and the Ever Given was lodged stem to stern.
From Washington Post
Tossing in his rubber boat in the waters off Midway, our wounded Ensign Gay watched the two great Japanese carriers blasted into flame from stem to stern as their planes circled helplessly above them, unable to land on the blazing furnaces which had been their nests.
From New York Times
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