run the gamut
run the gamut
experience, display or perform the complete range of something.
Gamut is a contraction of medieval Latin gamma ut, gamma being the lowest note in the medieval musical scale and ut the first of the six notes forming a hexachord.
Together, therefore, they represent the full range of notes of which a voice or an instrument is capable.
1996 – Europe : Rough Guide - Russia's hotels run the gamut from opulent citadels run as joint ventures with foreign firms to seedy pits inhabited by mobsters.
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