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from head to toe

from head to toe is the alternative form of head to toe.

Meaning of head to toe

Adverb

head to toe (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Entirely; completely; over one's full body.
    • He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.
  2. In reversed positions; in a lying position of two people where each person's feet are juxtaposed with the other person's head.
    • -we reversed positions so there was no funny business.
      - Reversed positions?
      - Yeah, you know, head to toe.1995, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, “The Wink”, in Seinfeld, season 7, episode 4
    Synonyms:
    completely

Questions about from head to toe

What is from head to toe the alternative form of?
From head to toe is the alternative form of head to toe.

Words near from head to toe in the dictionary

  1. from first to last
  2. from generation to generation
  3. from goo to you by way of the zoo
  4. from good hands
  5. from hand to hand
  6. from head to toe
  7. from hell
  8. from here on in
  9. from here on out
  10. from here to Sunday
  11. from hereon out

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