from cover to cover
Reading every page
From cover to cover means reading a book in its entirety, from the front cover to the back: I read the whole novel from cover to cover in one sitting.
The phrase emphasizes completeness—not skipping sections or skimming, but engaging with every page.
- front to backSpanning the full length
- start to finishEntire duration of something
- beginning to endThe complete duration
- perusalClose reading of something
- read throughExamine text completely
wall-to-wall · exhaustiveness · meticulousness · rigor · methodicalness · diligence · rereading · end-to-end · in-depth · scrutiny · all-encompassing · comprehensiveness · word-for-word · deep dive · proofreading · page · exactitude · soup-to-nuts
from cover to coverpartially
To an incomplete extent
incompletely · in part · here and there · piecemeal · not at all
from cover to coverskimming
Passing lightly over
browsing · sampling · flipping through · leafing through · cherry-picking
cover, covers, covered, covering, uncover, uncovered, uncovering, discover, discovered