from start to finish

English

Prepositional phrase

from start to finish

1. From beginning to end, all the way through.

   Synonyms: from first to last, from soup to nuts, from soda to hock, from A to Z, from aardvark to zymurgy, from A to izzard

Translations

Translations

Bulgarian: от нача́ло до край (ot načálo do kraj) Finnish: alusta loppuun French: du début à la fin German: von A bis Z Pennsylvania German: vun A bis Z Polish: od początku do końca Portuguese: de fio a pavio (pt), de cabo a rabo (pt)

See also

• from the start
• from top to bottom

Further reading

• “from start to finish”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “from start to finish”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.