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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English (fram) heved to þe ton.
Pronunciation
Adverb
head to toe (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Entirely; completely; over one's full body.
- He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.
- In reversed positions; in a lying position of two people where each person's feet are juxtaposed with the other person's head.
1995, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, “The Wink”, in Seinfeld, season 7, episode 4:-we reversed positions so there was no funny business.
- Reversed positions?
- Yeah, you know, head to toe.
Synonyms
Translations
entirely; completely; over one's full body
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ոտքից գլուխ (otkʻicʻ glux)
- Belarusian: з галавы да ног (z halavy da noh), з ног да галавы (z noh da halavy)
- Bengali: মাথা থেকে পা পর্যন্ত (bn) (matha theke pa porjonto)
- Breton: penn-da-benn (br) (literally “head to head”)
- Catalan: de cap a peus (literally “from head to feet”)
- Danish: fra top til tå
- Dutch: van top tot teen (literally “from top to toe”)
- Finnish: päästä varpaisiin
- French: de la tête aux pieds (fr) (literally “from the head to feet”), de pied en cap (fr), des pieds à la tête (fr) (literally “from feet to the head”), depuis les pieds jusqu’à la tête (fr) (literally “from the feet to the head”)
- German: von Kopf bis Fuß (literally “from head to foot”)
- Greek: πατόκορφα (el) (patókorfa)
- Hebrew: מִכַּף רֶגֶל וְעַד רֹאשׁ (he) (mikkáf régel v'ad rosh)
- Hungarian: tetőtől talpig (hu) (literally “from top to sole”)
- Irish: please add this translation if you can
- Old Irish: ó mulluch co talmain (literally “from top to Earth”)
- Japanese: 頭の天辺から足の爪先まで (あたまのてっぺんからあしのつまさきまで, atama no teppen kara ashi no tsumasaki made), 全身 (ja) (ぜんしん, zenshin)
- Latin: a capite ad calcem
- Macedonian: од глава до петици (od glava do petici, literally “from head to heels”)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fra topp til tå
- Nynorsk: frå topp til tå
- Ottoman Turkish: باشدن ایاغه (başdan ayağa)
- Persian: سراپا (fa) (sarâ-pâ)
- Polish: od czubka głowy do pięt (pl), od stóp do głów (pl) (literally “from feet to heads”)
- Portuguese: da cabeça aos pés, de cabo a rabo (pt) (literally “from head to tail”), de fio a pavio (pt), dos pés à cabeça (pt)
- Romanian: de la cap la coadă
- Russian: с головы до пят (ru) (s golovy do pjat), с головы до ног (s golovy do nog)
- Spanish: de pies a cabeza (literally “from feet to head”)
- Swedish: från topp till tå
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: từ đầu đến đuôi (literally “from head to tail”)
- Welsh: o'r corun i'r sawdl
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