from A to Zee

If it were a colonel’s daughter or someone of that sort, I’d know the psychology from A to Zee (as the English say).

1936 December, Richard Aldington, “To Patricia and A. S. Frere (privately held)”, in Norman T. Gates, editor, Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters, The Pennsylvania State University Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 143

The business of all art, from A to Zee, as the Americans say, is to show things in their true relationships.

1985 [a. 1931?], D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “‘Art and Morality’, First version”, in Bruce Steele, editor, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence), Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 236

I was by now beginning to get used to “affirmatives”, “negatives”, “nixes” (strong negatives), “checks” (confirmations), and even beginning to think of things ranging from A to Zee.

1991, Gopal Baratham, chapter 6, in A Candle or The Sun, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 62

I knew my French rock ’n’ roll from A to Zee via Salut Les Copains, the glossy colour music mag that took its pop as seriously as Cahiers du Cinéma did film.

2000, Andrew Loog Oldham, Stoned, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 118