from A to Zed

English

Prepositional phrase

from A to Zed

1. British form of from A to Z.
   • 1922, The Writer’s Monthly, page 433:

     As to plots, “there are only about a score in the world, and when you have used them all from A to Zed you can turn around and use them from Zed to A.”

   • 1954, Cole Porter, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York, N.Y.: Random House, pages 21–22:

     Oh, I hate men. From all I’ve read, / Alone in bed, / From A to Zed / About ’em, / Since love is blind, / Then from the blind / All womankind / Should rout ’em, / But ladies, you / Must answer, too . . . / “What would we do / Without ’em?”

   • 1955, Frederic F[ranklyn] Van de Water, Wings of the Morning, New York, N.Y.: Ives Washburn, Inc., page 88:

     I’ve learned from A to Zed about Dummerston.

   • 1998, Joseph Natoli, “Reality as Pulp Fiction”, in Speeding to the Millennium: Film & Culture 1993–1995, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 37:

     And interrelationships are what we get in Pulp Fiction, fictions from A to Zed.