from cover to cover

English

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Prepositional phrase

from cover to cover

  1. (idiomatic) From the first page (of a book) all the way to the last page.
    She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours.
    • 1992 August 19, Gilbert Adair, “Culture rapping”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 32:
      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.

Translations

from the first page to the last page
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