from soda to hock
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]In reference to the card game faro, in which the soda is the first card and the hock the last.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- From start to finish.
- 2008, Richard E. Baker, Letters from Across the Big Divide, page 56:
- If two different juries that sat in on the court dealings from soda to hock can't see the same verdict, don't trust no cowhand seventy-one winters gone to judge him.