до кончиков ногтей

• ДО КОНЦА <ДО КОНЧИКОВ> НОГТЕЙ

[PrepP; these forms only; nonagreeing modif; fixed WO]

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⇒ (one is a certain type of person) entirely, in every way:

- (a [NP]) to the (one's) fingertips;

- every inch (a (the) [NP]);

- (a [NP]) to the core;

- (a [NP]) through and through.

     ♦ ...С такими людьми я ешё никогда не встречался, сразу видно: утончённый, изысканно-простой, до кончиков ногтей интеллигентный... (Катаев 3). ...Such people were quite beyond my ken. I saw at once that he was refined and yet exquisitely natural, an intellectual to the very fingertips (3a).