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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007The best from soup to nuts
Hello: I don't quite get the "the best from soup to nuts" and "Corona Corona." Could it be "feeling satisfied, like a man who has treated himself to a great meal, from start to end, including a Corona beer (Mexican beer)?" It seems that "the best from soup to nuts" has some recognition as an idiom, I've found it on some restaurant sites. -------- I was full of beans. I had fire in my belly. I was a hero. ... I was the stuff. And all at once under the stars I was like a man who has done himself the best from soup to nuts and a Corona Corona and feels like a virtuous million ... All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, p. 595 ------- Thanks. Marius Hancu > . . . I was like a man who has done himself > the best from soup to nuts and a Corona Corona and feels like a > virtuous million ... > > All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, p. 595 > ------- 1. "Soup to nuts" is a colloquial way of specifying the whole menu of a (presumably elaborate) meal (soup, fish course, meat course, salad, dessert, cheese, nuts afterwards) thus also a metaphor for completeness. 2. Corona Corona is a specially oversize variety of Cuban cigar.  SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) On 15 Jan 2007, Marius Hancu wrote > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > himself to a great meal, from start to end, including a Corona > beer (Mexican beer)?" A "Corona Corona" is a fine cigar; the meal covered all one could possibly want, and then he finished off with a cigar (and probably something to sip). SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > A "Corona Corona" is a fine cigar; the meal covered all one could > possibly want, and then he finished off with a cigar (and probably > something to sip). Thank you both. Marius Hancu > I don't quite get the "the best from soup to nuts" and "Corona Corona." > > Could it be "feeling satisfied, like a man who has treated himself to > a great meal, from start to end, including a Corona beer (Mexican beer)?" > And all at once under the stars I was like a man who has done himself > the best from soup to nuts and a Corona Corona and feels like a > virtuous million ... A typical meal of the era might be served in this order: soup, main course, dessert, nuts and/o cheese, brandy or other digestif and a cigar. A Corona Corona "Crown of Crowns" is an expensive cigar. > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Thanks. > Marius Hancu I'd never heard the phrase "soup to nuts" until I saw a biopic of the Three Stooges a year or so ago. They made a film by that title in 1930 and this was mentioned. The term is self-explanatory, I suppose. At least, I assume I understand it correctly. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021408/ > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > It seems that "the best from soup to nuts" has some recognition as an > idiom, I've found it on some restaurant sites. It means "from beginning to end", following the tradition (French? English?) of starting a multi-course meal with soup and ending it with nuts. The ad is also saying that "Corona Corona" is best with all courses of a meal. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > The ad is also saying that "Corona Corona" is best with all courses > of a meal. If we promise not to try to make tequila, do you think the Mexicans might stop trying to make beer? SignatureMike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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