from cover to cover

English

Adverb

from cover to cover (not comparable)

(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

Icelandic: spjaldanna á milli
Polish: od deski do deski (pl)
Russian: от корки до корки (ru) (ot korki do korki)

Serbo-Croatian: od korica do korica
Swedish: från pärm till pärm (sv)

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