from cover to cover

English

Adverb

from cover to cover (not comparable)

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.

Translations

from the first page to the last page

• Dutch: van kaft tot kaft, van voor tot achter
• Esperanto: tralegi (to read from cover to cover), trae
• Hungarian: elejétől a végéig
• Icelandic: spjaldanna á milli
• Italian: da cima a fondo
• Korean: 완독(完讀)하다 (wandokhada) (verb meaning "to read from cover to cover")
• Polish: od dechy do dechy, od deski do deski (pl)
• Portuguese: de cabo a rabo (pt)
• Russian: от корки до корки (ru) (ot korki do korki)
• Serbo-Croatian: od korica do korica
• Swedish: från pärm till pärm (sv)
• Turkish: baştan sona (tr)