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
It was 7:44 a.m., and the Ever Given was lodged stem to stern.
From Washington Post
“The police is shot through with fascists from stem to stern. They were openly working with the fascists in Portland, as they were in Kenosha which led to dead protestors.”
From Fox News
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
“This happened in the belly of the boat. Those people did not have a chance to get out: From stem to stern, that boat was burning.”
From Los Angeles Times
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