A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

from A to B • from A to Z
from A to B —from one point or position to another: In
traffic-choked cities the slender bike is the fastest means of
getting from A to B.
from A to Z —(also: from A to Izzard) from beginning to end;
completely: Every program-builder should know the sym-
phonic repertoire from A to Z.
from Dan to Beersheba • from Land’s End to John
o’ Groat’s
from Dan to Beersheba —from one end of the land to the
other (originally of biblical Palestine): Having visited the most
remarkable places from Dan to Beersheba, he finally returned
home after some eleven months.
from Land’s End to John o’ Groats —(UK) from one end of
Great Britain to the other: Every well-known branded article
(as advertised on television) costs precisely the same from
Land’s End to John o’ Groats.
Note: 
Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase
from China to Peru—all over the world: The invention of
radio meant that people from China to Peru could learn of an
event soon after it happened.
from hand to hand • hand-to-hand
from hand to hand — pass from one person to a series of other
persons: The book traveled from hand to hand until it got
back to its owner.
hand-to-hand —(of fighting ) at close quarters; man to man:
This excellent manual on combat hand-to-hand fighting still
holds up today.
from hand to mouth • from mouth to mouth
from hand to mouth —(in the phrase “live from hand to
mouth”) have just enough money to live on: With farmers liv-
ing from hand to mouth, it is difficult to expect them to take
to organic cultivation.
from mouth to mouth —(of a tale, rumor, etc.) pass from one
person to a series of other persons: Xavier’s name was repeated
from mouth to mouth with cries of vengeance.