stem

[for an event] to result from something. These problems all stem from your mismanagement. Our difficulties stem from the bad weather we have been having.

completely We overhauled the car from stem to stern.

to result from something His fear of snakes stems from an incident in his childhood.

to stop something from increasing This law may stem the tide of pollution of our beautiful river from the factories built along its banks.

from the beginning to the end She told us everything about the trip, from soup to nuts.

from one end of something to the other We overhauled the car from stem to stern.

to stop something bad which is happening a lot (often + of ) We have to stem the tide of emigration if our economy is to recover. Ohio State were losing 24-48 when Jackson stepped in to stem the tide.

Also, from A to Z or start to finish or stem to stern . From beginning to end, throughout, as in We went through the whole agenda, from soup to nuts, or She had to learn a whole new system from A to Z, or It rained from start to finish, or We did over the whole house from stem to stern. The first expression, with its analogy to the first and last courses of a meal, appeared in slightly different forms (such as from potage to cheese) from the 1500s on; the precise wording here dates only from the mid-1900s. The second expression alludes to the first and last letters of the Roman alphabet; see also alpha and omega. The third comes from racing and alludes to the entire course of the race; it dates from the mid-1800s. The last variant is nautical, alluding to the front or stem, and rear or stern, of a vessel.

Stop the course of a trend or tendency, as in It is not easy to stem the tide of public opinion. This idiom uses stem in the sense of "stop" or "restrain." [Mid-1800s]

see under from soup to nuts.

From one end to another.