Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context US English) From the first course of a meal to the last. 2 (context idiomatic US English) From beginning to end; throughout.
Wikipedia
From Soup to Nuts is a 1928 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy as butlers hired for a high society dinner party. When Stan is asked to serve the salad undressed he serves it in his underwear.
The film was remade as a 20-minute section at the start of their 1940 feature A Chump at Oxford, added to extend that film's length for European audiences.
Usage examples of "from soup to nuts".
I'm the last to know as usual, but my lawyers have finally established who was tabbing the whole psychodrama, from cab fares to lab fees, from soup to nuts.
My own acquaintance with him is a longstanding one, and I have come to know his psychology from soup to nuts.
They would take Christmas dinner in the mess, where for eighty cents they would be served the army's ritual fourteen-course Christmas banquet literally everything from soup to nuts, via roast turkey and baked ham.
Don could roll of a container containing, literally, everything from soup to nuts.
She would, I think, have gone deeper into the matter, for already she had begun to pay a marked tribute to my guardian angel, who, she said, plainly knew his job from soup to nuts, but at this moment Seppings appeared and asked her if she would have a word with Jeeves, and she went out to have it.