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from cover to cover en · ADP

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) From the first page (of a book) all the way to the last page.
   • In short, every culturally literate person[…] must know who Oblomov is, if he or she intends to participate in the cultural discourse, but no one will ever be blackballed from that discourse for not recognising the name “Goncharov” or not having read his novel from cover to cover. 1992 August 19, Gilbert Adair, “Culture rapping”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 32:
   • She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours.

Forms

Translations (16)

is spjaldanna á milli (from the first page to the last page) · nl van kaft tot kaft (from the first page to the last page) · de von Anfang bis Ende (from the first page to the last page) · pt de cabo a rabo (from the first page to the last page) · pl od deski do deski (from the first page to the last page) · ko 완독(完讀)하다 (from the first page to the last page) · nl van voor tot achter (from the first page to the last page) · sh od korica do korica (from the first page to the last page) · tr baştan sona (from the first page to the last page) · ru от корки до корки (from the first page to the last page) · pl od dechy do dechy (from the first page to the last page) · eo trae (from the first page to the last page) · it da cima a fondo (from the first page to the last page) · eo tralegi (from the first page to the last page) · hu elejétől a végéig (from the first page to the last page) · sv från pärm till pärm (from the first page to the last page)