cover the waterfront

To be thorough and comprehensive in what is presented or dealt with. This thesis will attempt to cover the waterfront of English Law from 1950 to the present. Your final paper is expected to cover the waterfront of Romantic poetry, so you can't limit yourself to just Keats and Wordsworth. If you want an A, you really need to cover the waterfront of Dickens' works. You should spend at least some time on every work we read this semester.

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cover the waterfront

to deal with every detail concerning a specific topic. Her talk really covered the waterfront. By the time she finished, I knew much more than I wanted to know.

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cover the waterfront

mainly AMERICAN

If you cover the waterfront, you include or deal with a very wide range of things, or every aspect of something. Moving full-time into TV presenting, Tyler has covered the waterfront from current affairs programmes and documentaries to daytime chat shows.

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cover the waterfront

cover every aspect of something. North American informal

1999 Tony Parsons Man and Boy And I suddenly realised how many father figures Luke has, father figures who seem to cover the waterfront of parental responsibilities.

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cover the waterfront

To treat, examine, or include a full range of things: a book that covers the waterfront on starting your own business.

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cover the waterfront, to

To include or comprise everything about something, to leave nothing out. Why this American colloquialism should use “waterfront” to mean everything about some subject is a mystery: for example, “This American history course begins with Columbus and ends with the last election—it really covers the waterfront.”

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