run the gamut
Span all possibilities
To run the gamut is to cover an entire range or spectrum of something: Her emotions ran the gamut from despair to elation.
The phrase comes from music, where gamut once meant the full scale of notes.
Now it applies to any complete sweep across possibilities: The reviews ran the gamut from scathing to glowing.
- diverseOf many types
- entiretyThe whole of something
- rangeExtent of variation
- full spectrumIncluding all variations
- polesLong sticks or extremities
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