from A to Z

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from A to Zed (UK)
from A to Zee (US)

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from A to Z

(idiomatic) Covering a complete range; comprehensively; from beginning to end.[1][2]
They covered the whole field from A to Z in eight classes.

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(completely): from A to izzard; for more, see Thesaurus:completely

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completely

Afrikaans: van A tot Z (af)
Albanian: nga A në Z
Arabic: مِنَ الأَلِف إِلَى اليَاء (mina l-ʔalif ʔilā l-yāʔ)
Belarusian: ад а́ да я́ (ad á da já), ад А́ да Я́ (ad Á da Já), ад а́льфы да аме́гі (ad álʹfy da amjéhi)
Bulgarian: от А́ до Я́ (ot Á do Já), от а́лфа до оме́га (ot álfa do oméga)
Catalan: de la A a la Z
Chinese:
Mandarin: 從頭到尾／从头到尾 (zh) (cóng tóu dào wěi) (from head to tail)
Czech: od A do Z
Danish: fra A til Z, fra A til Å
Dutch: van A tot Z
Estonian: A-st Z-ni
Finnish: aasta ööhön (fi), A:sta Ö:hön
French: de A à Z (fr), depuis A jusqu’à Z (fr)
Georgian: ანიდან ჰოემდე (anidan hoemde)
German: von A bis Z (de)
Greek: από το Α ως το Ω (apó to A os to O)
Hebrew: מ־א׳ ועד ת׳ (he) (mi-álef ve'ád tav)
Hungarian: á-tól z-ig (hu), ától zéig, ától cettig (hu)
Icelandic: frá A til Ö
Italian: dalla A alla Z
Japanese: 初めから終わりまで (はじめからおわりまで, hajime kara owari made) (from beginning to end), 一から十まで (いちからじゅうまで, ichi kara jū made) (from one to ten)
Kazakh: А-дан Я-ға дейін (A-dan Ä-ğa deiın)
Korean: 하나에서 열까지 다 (hana-eseo yeol-kkaji da) (from one to ten)
Latvian: no A līdz Z
Lithuanian: nuo A iki Z
Macedonian: од А до Ш (od A do Š)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fra A til Å
Occitan: de la A a la Z
Polish: od A do Z (pl), od a do zet (pl)
Portuguese: de A a Z
Romanian: de la A la Z
Russian: от а́ до я́ (ru) (ot á do já), от А́ до Я́ (ru) (ot Á do Já), с нача́ла до конца́ (s načála do koncá) (from beginning to end), от а́льфы до оме́ги (ru) (ot álʹfy do omégi), от а́ до и́жицы (ru) (ot á do ížicy) (archaic)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: од А до Ш (Serbian)

Roman: od A do Š (Serbian), od A do Z (Croatia)
Slovak: od A po Z
Slovene: od A do Ž
Spanish: de pe a pa (es), de la cruz a la fecha
Swedish: från A till Ö (sv), A och O
Turkish: A'dan Z'ye
Ukrainian: від а́ до я́ (vid á do já), від А́ до Я́ (vid Á do Já), від а́льфи до оме́ги (vid álʹfy do oméhy)

References

Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “from A to Z”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 1.
Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 1

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[1] Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “from A to Z”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 1.

[2] Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 1

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