From the cradle to the grave
From birth to death, throughout life, as in This health plan will cover you from cradle to grave. Richard Steele used the term in The Tatler (1709): “A modest fellow never has a doubt from his cradle to his grave.” [ c. 1700 ]
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adverb phrase From the very beginning: It was his bust from the git-go/ Right from the get-go he came out smoking. It all went down in milliseconds [fr black; perhaps based on from the word go, found by 1883]
- From the hip
Related Terms shoot from the hip
- From the outset
see: at the outset
- From the shoulder
Related Terms straight from the shoulder
- From the sublime to the ridiculous
From the beautiful to the silly, from great to puny. For example, They played first Bach and then an ad jingle—from the sublime to the ridiculous. The reverse, from the ridiculous to the sublime, is used with the opposite meaning. Coined by Tom Paine in The Age of Reason (1794), in which he said the […]