from head to heels

Encompassing one's entire body; from top to bottom. Typically refers to how one is dressed and groomed. This is a fancy event, so you need to look good from head to heels. Schedule a haircut and shine your shoes.

See also: head, heel

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

from head to foot
from head to foot/toe
from head to toe
from tip to toe
head to toe
from top to toe
(from) top to toe
head-to-toe
head-to-foot
spiff

References in classic literature

He followed the Himalaya-Thibet road, the little ten-foot track that is blasted out of solid rock, or strutted out on timbers over gulfs a thousand feet deep; that dips into warm, wet, shut-in valleys, and climbs out across bare, grassy hill-shoulders where the sun strikes like a burning-glass; or turns through dripping, dark forests where the tree-ferns dress the trunks from head to heel, and the pheasant calls to his mate.

For one mile in width and two thousand feet in sheer depth the mountain-side had come away bodily, planed clean from head to heel.

Second Jungle Book

Now Tom shivered from head to heel; for his eye fell upon the stolid face of Injun Joe.

Tom Sawyer

He was in old-time iron armor from head to heel, with a helmet on his head the shape of a nail-keg with slits in it; and he had a shield, and a sword, and a pro- digious spear; and his horse had armor on, too, and a steel horn projecting from his forehead, and gorgeous red and green silk trappings that hung down all around him like a bedquilt, nearly to the ground.

Connecticut Yankee

I had been vaguely conscious, for a while, of a person who was walking in the street abreast of us; I had glanced furtively at him once or twice, and noticed that he was a fine, large, vigorous young fellow, with an open, independent countenance, faintly shaded with a pale and even almost imperceptible crop of early down, and that he was clothed from head to heel in cool and enviable snow-white linen.

Tramp Abroad

He fell into Deesa's arms trumpeting with joy, and the man and beast wept and slobbered over each other, and handled each other from head to heel to see that no harm had befallen

From Mine Own People

She gave a quick sidewise glance that embraced him from head to heel, including seat and saddle, and said:--

Burning Daylight

"Whether a golfer, tennis player, or dancer," she says, "once you use improper technique, you can compromise the joint integrity." For optimal alignment, she aims for a plumb line from head to heels, the arms and legs releasing away from the center, and the torso lengthening and widening as you move.

Your body, yourself: advice on injury prevention from Santa Fe's growing cadre of dancers-turned-healers

词组	from head to heels
释义	from head to heels from head to heels Encompassing one's entire body; from top to bottom. Typically refers to how one is dressed and groomed. This is a fancy event, so you need to look good from head to heels. Schedule a haircut and shine your shoes. See also: head, heel Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: from head to foot from head to foot/toe from head to toe from tip to toe head to toe from top to toe (from) top to toe head-to-toe head-to-foot spiff References in classic literature He followed the Himalaya-Thibet road, the little ten-foot track that is blasted out of solid rock, or strutted out on timbers over gulfs a thousand feet deep; that dips into warm, wet, shut-in valleys, and climbs out across bare, grassy hill-shoulders where the sun strikes like a burning-glass; or turns through dripping, dark forests where the tree-ferns dress the trunks from head to heel, and the pheasant calls to his mate. For one mile in width and two thousand feet in sheer depth the mountain-side had come away bodily, planed clean from head to heel. Second Jungle Book Now Tom shivered from head to heel; for his eye fell upon the stolid face of Injun Joe. Tom Sawyer He was in old-time iron armor from head to heel, with a helmet on his head the shape of a nail-keg with slits in it; and he had a shield, and a sword, and a pro- digious spear; and his horse had armor on, too, and a steel horn projecting from his forehead, and gorgeous red and green silk trappings that hung down all around him like a bedquilt, nearly to the ground. Connecticut Yankee I had been vaguely conscious, for a while, of a person who was walking in the street abreast of us; I had glanced furtively at him once or twice, and noticed that he was a fine, large, vigorous young fellow, with an open, independent countenance, faintly shaded with a pale and even almost imperceptible crop of early down, and that he was clothed from head to heel in cool and enviable snow-white linen. Tramp Abroad He fell into Deesa's arms trumpeting with joy, and the man and beast wept and slobbered over each other, and handled each other from head to heel to see that no harm had befallen From Mine Own People She gave a quick sidewise glance that embraced him from head to heel, including seat and saddle, and said:-- Burning Daylight "Whether a golfer, tennis player, or dancer," she says, "once you use improper technique, you can compromise the joint integrity." For optimal alignment, she aims for a plumb line from head to heels, the arms and legs releasing away from the center, and the torso lengthening and widening as you move. Your body, yourself: advice on injury prevention from Santa Fe's growing cadre of dancers-turned-healers
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