nook or cranny

nook or cranny

Every possible place or part of something, down to the smallest ones. You need to clean every nook or cranny of this room before your grandmother gets here—it has to be spotless for her! I looked in every nook or cranny of the attic and couldn't find that box anywhere.
See also: cranny, nook
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • nook and cranny
  • nooks and crannies
  • nook and cranny, every
  • every nook and cranny
  • every (old) nook and cranny
  • every which where
  • cover all bases
  • cover all the/your bases
  • every inch a/the leader, star, hero, etc.
  • learn from the bottom up
References in classic literature
The captain ordered an immediate and thorough search of the entire ship from stem to stern--no nook or cranny was to be overlooked.
He asked his detractors to point out any nook or cranny of the area where there were no signs of his service.
SPRING cleaning to be a task that weeks devoted nook or cranny overlooked STOCK UP ON TOOLS Spring cleaning used to be a traditional task that had weeks devoted to it, and no nook or cranny was overlooked.
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SPRING cleaning to be a task that weeks devoted to nook or cranny overlooked STOCK UP ON TOOLS Spring cleaning used to be a traditional task that had weeks devoted to it, and no nook or cranny was overlooked.
Perhaps not, but as the audience (and the rest of the planet) already knows by this point in Peter Weir's fascinating 1998 satire, that would be the only nook or cranny on the vast set of Truman Burbank's so-called life where his keepers didn't have a 24-hour minicam.