from a to z
Covering everything possible
From A to Z means comprehensively, covering everything from beginning to end.
The phrase uses the alphabet's first and last letters to suggest complete coverage: She knows the business from A to Z, The guide covers home repair from A to Z.
Sometimes written as from A to Zed in British English.
- totalityComplete aggregate amount
- entiretyThe whole of something
- the whole shebangThe entire affair
- inside outInner surface exposed externally
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
the whole nine yards · lock stock and barrel · soup to nuts · start to finish · beginning to end · all-encompassing · categorization · universality · order · linearity · alphabetical · inclusiveness · indexing · wholeness · comprehensiveness · cradle to grave · top to bottom · head to toe
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, total
- gradual phrasesbit by bit, little by little, step by step, one by one, piece by piece
from a to zin part
To some degree
piecemeal · partially · incompletely · here and there · bits and pieces
from a to zbackwards
Toward what's behind
in reverse · back to front · randomly · out of order · haphazardly