cover the waterfrontとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

cover the waterfront (三人称単数 現在形 covers the waterfront, 現在分詞 covering the waterfront, 過去形および過去分詞形 covered the waterfront)

1. To cover every aspect of a topic or situation.
   • 1975, J. W. George Ivany, Today's Science:

     But on the other hand, we continue to see huge sales of teacher-oriented textbooks that cover the waterfront of the major facts, laws, and theories in each and every domain of science.

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     "I hear you," Polly said. "I do feel better, I can't help it, and I'm very grateful for it. Does that about cover the waterfront?"

   • 2023, Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Coughlin (U.S. Supreme Court No. 22–227), Justice Jackson (majority opinion):

     For another, whereas the pairing of “foreign” and “domestic” often covers the waterfront,... the dissent’s hypothetical pairings do not have that same effect. And unlike animals (which need not be small または doglike) or ice creams (which need not be chocolate または vanilla), every government must be foreign or domestic to some degree; the question is just where on the spectrum it falls.