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From Soup to Nuts

 

From Soup to Nuts

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Meaning:

From Soup to Nuts means from beginning to end, start to finish.


Origin:

From soup to nuts started as a literal meaning, this phrase was meant to be all the successive parts of a meal, from soup at the beginning to nuts and fruits at the end—an example form from The Charleston Daily Courier 1870 reads:

“We have lately had the pleasure and privilege, along with a friend, of a dinner, at the Charleston Hotel, as an invited guest. The Bill of Fare, from soup to nuts and fruit..,”

We changed the meaning of from soup to nuts from the literal sense of a full meal to anything that explains a process from beginning to end. The earliest occurrence that I have found of the phrase is from 

A Flying Shot at the United States, by ‘Fitzgunne’, published in The Dublin University Magazine, 1852, it reads:

“I have heard of a boast being made by a veteran in the art that he could get from soup to nuts in ten minutes.”


Example:

Today we still can hear the phrase “from soup to nuts,” however, it is not as popular as it once was. An example Sentence is:

"OK, let's go over the agenda again, from soup to nuts."


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