de cabo a rabo
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “from head to tail”
Adverb
[edit]de cabo a rabo (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) to a complete extent; one hundred percent; completely; utterly; fully
- Synonym: de fio a pavio
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “from head to tail”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) completely, utterly, fully
- Synonyms: de cabo a cabo, de pe a pa
- (idiomatic) from start to finish, all the way through
Further reading
[edit]- “de cabo a rabo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28