soup-to-nuts
Americanadjective
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(of a meal) complete or impressive in number of courses.
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Informal. complete; all-inclusive.
Etymology
Origin of soup-to-nuts
An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
Example Sentences
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The idea that the market still has room for dozens of large newspapers offering similar soup-to-nuts products in an age of personalized taste and atomized content is as anachronistic as the thud of a thick daily printed paper on a doorstep at 5 a.m.
The deal is the latest in a series of bets Google has made to develop a soup-to-nuts strategy for accessing vast amounts of power.
This soup-to-nuts integration is immensely valuable.
Rather than assemble a soup-to-nuts tale hamstrung by chronology, he shrewdly offers up her story as an all-star revue about her ascent.
From Los Angeles Times
ServiceTitan counts about 8,000 contracting firms as customers, providing a soup-to-nuts software package that can manage booking appointments, generating estimates and processing invoices as well as payroll and dispatching workers.
From Los Angeles Times
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