| 词汇 | from soup to nuts |
| 词源 | from soup to nuts. An American expression for “everything,” apparently coined in the late 1920s and obviously based on the menu of a sumptuous meal or banquet at which everything from a first course of soup to a last course of nuts is served. In the soup is an Americanism meaning “in trouble.” |
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