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from head to toe
Idioms and Phrases
Also, from head to heels or foot ; from tip or top to toe . Over the entire body, in its entirety. For example, He was dressed in black from head to toe , or She ached all over, from tip to toe . These expressions date from ancient times. The alliterative head to heels originated about 1400, and Shakespeare had “from top to toe” in Hamlet (1:2).Example Sentences
The two-year-old, who was found under a pile of blankets with “traumatic injuries from head to toe” on 30 June 2023, officially died from a bone marrow embolism as a consequence of skeletal trauma.
Last week, about a dozen patients, some with skin lesions from head to toe, were isolated in a white tent, waiting for lab confirmation they had mpox.
The best video footage of the protest showed a “random individual” who was “covered from head to toe,” Youssef told attendees at the meeting.
“It just portrays this narrative of: We can just come in, click somebody from head to toe, and they’re pretty much going to be back on top of the game,” Mr. Breen said.
She’s dressed in black from head to toe—black jeans, black blouse, black high heels.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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