<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up from soup to nuts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up from soup to nuts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> "Soup to nuts" is an American English idiom that conveys the meaning of "from beginning to end". It is derived from the description of a full course dinner, in which courses progress from soup to a dessert of nuts . It is comparable to expressions in other languages, such as the Latin phrase ab ovo usque ad mala ("from the egg to the apples"), describing the typical Roman meal . </P>

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