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from soda to hock en · ADP

Etymology

In reference to the card game faro, in which the soda is the first card and the hock the last.

Meanings

  1. From start to finish.
    • If two different juries that sat in on the court dealings from soda to hock can't see the same verdict, don't trust no cowhand seventy-one winters gone to judge him. 2008, Richard E. Baker, Letters from Across the Big Divide, page 56: