de cabo a rabo
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]de (“from”) + cabo (“head”) + a (“to”) + rabo (“tail”)
Adverb
[edit]de cabo a rabo (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) to a complete extent; one hundred percent; completely; utterly; fully
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]de (“from”) + cabo (“edge, head”) + a (“to”) + rabo (“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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014