Translation of "jusqu'au bout des ongles" to English

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Dictionary translations for "jusqu'au bout des ongles"

jusqu'au bout des ongles adverb

to the fingertips (locution adverbiale, au sens figuré, degré)

Contexts with "jusqu'au bout des ongles"

Il fait gentleman jusqu'au bout des ongles. He looks every inch a gentleman.

Il est américain jusqu'au bout des ongles. He is American to the soles of his feet.

Le vernis à ongles est inutile : personne ne regarde des ongles de toutes façons. Nail polish is useless: no one looks at nails anyway.

Il connait ce sujet sur le bout des doigts. He has the subject at his fingertips.

Je rentrais à la maison depuis un endroit au bout du monde, à environ trois heures d'un sombre matin d'hiver, et mon chemin conduisait à travers une partie de la ville où il n'y avait littéralement rien à voir que des lampes. I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps.

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