head to toe

English

Alternative forms

• head-to-toe, from head to toe

Etymology

From Middle English (fram) heved to þe ton.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

head to toe (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Entirely; completely; over one's full body.

   He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.

2. In reversed positions; in a lying position of two people where each person's feet are juxtaposed with the other person's head.
   • 1995, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, “The Wink”, in Seinfeld, season 7, episode 4:

     -we reversed positions so there was no funny business.
     - Reversed positions?
     - Yeah, you know, head to toe.

Synonyms

• cap-a-pie
• head to foot
• head to tail
• top to toe
• top to tail

Related terms

• from the rooter to the tooter

Translations

entirely; completely; over one's full body

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ոտքից գլուխ (otkʻicʻ glux)
• Belarusian: з галавы да ног (z halavy da noh), з ног да галавы (z noh da halavy)
• Bengali: মাথা থেকে পা পর্যন্ত (matha theke pa porjonto)
• Breton: penn-da-benn (br) (literally “head to head”)
• Catalan: de cap a peus (literally “from head to feet”)
• Danish: fra top til tå
• Dutch: van top tot teen (literally “from top to toe[s]”)
• Finnish: päästä varpaisiin
• French: de la tête aux pieds (fr) (literally “from the head to [the] feet”), de pied en cap (fr), des pieds à la tête (fr) (literally “from [the] feet to the head”), depuis les pieds jusqu’à la tête (fr) (literally “from the feet to the head”)
• German: von Kopf bis Fuß (literally “from head to foot”)
• Greek: πατόκορφα (el) (patókorfa)
• Hungarian: tetőtől talpig (hu) (literally “from top to sole”)
• Irish: please add this translation if you can

  Old Irish: ó mulluch co talmain (literally “from top to Earth”)

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• Japanese: 全身 (ja) (ぜんしん, zenshin)
• Latin: a capite ad calcem
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fra topp til tå

  Nynorsk: frå topp til tå

• Ottoman Turkish: باشدن ایاغه (başdan ayağa)
• Persian: سراپا (fa) (sarâ-pâ)
• Polish: od czubka głowy do pięt (pl), od stóp do głów (pl) (literally “from feet to heads”)
• Portuguese: de cabo a rabo (pt) (literally “from head to tail”), de fio a pavio (pt)
• Romanian: de la cap la coadă
• Russian: с головы до пят (ru) (s golovy do pjat), с головы до ног (s golovy do nog)
• Spanish: de pies a cabeza (literally “from feet to head”)
• Swedish: från topp till tå
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: từ đầu đến đuôi (literally “from head to tail”)
• Welsh: o'r corun i'r sawdl

in reversed positions

• French: tête-bêche (fr)
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• Swedish: skavfötters (sv)