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English
Prepositional phrase
from A to Zee
- (US) Alternative form of from A to Z.
1913, Oliver Onions, The Two Kisses: A Tale of a Very Modern Courtship, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 170:He’s here to look good; if he does that he fills the bill from A to Zee.
1936 December, Richard Aldington, “To Patricia and A. S. Frere (privately held)”, in Norman T. Gates, editor, Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters, The Pennsylvania State University Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 143:If it were a colonel’s daughter or someone of that sort, I’d know the psychology from A to Zee (as the English say).
1985 [a. 1931?], D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “‘Art and Morality’, First version”, in Bruce Steele, editor, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence), Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 236:The business of all art, from A to Zee, as the Americans say, is to show things in their true relationships.
1991, Gopal Baratham, chapter 6, in A Candle or The Sun, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 62:I was by now beginning to get used to “affirmatives”, “negatives”, “nixes” (strong negatives), “checks” (confirmations), and even beginning to think of things ranging from A to Zee.
2000, Andrew Loog Oldham, Stoned, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 118:I knew my French rock ’n’ roll from A to Zee via Salut Les Copains, the glossy colour music mag that took its pop as seriously as Cahiers du Cinéma did film.