During the second world war, gunners were armed with an ammunition belt which was 27 feet long. Like the holy grail the whole nine yards has inspired both armchair mythologizing and years of hard and often fruitless searching through random books and miles of newspaper microfilm. Use of the full phrase was for a long time restricted to the american midwest, in particular to the region around the kentuckyindiana border, before. Jan 02, 20 no one explained how any of these theories jibed with the recent discovery of a whole six yards variant in a kentucky newspaper in the 1910s some four decades before the appearance of the whole nine yards, or why, for example, an expression that derived from saris or kilts would be totally unknown in british and indian sources. For example, he decided to take everything to collegehis books, his stereo, his computer. Not an entirely hilarious film, the whole nine yards is rescued by some rewardingly offbeat performances, a lighthearted tone. The first citation relates to his extracting himself from an unwanted marriage. If a pilot were to empty his planes guns into a target, hed be giving it the whole nine yards.
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Mar 22, 2020 later, the words full or whole were attached to it, and even later it was quantified by the numbers six and nine, with the whole nine yards eventually winning out and becoming the canonical form. It also suggests that the number isnt important and doesnt refer to anything in particular. Squareriggers usually have three masts, each with three sails, which are held up by wooden poles called yards. We have been proudly serving the thunder bay and region area since 2005. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. The preterm birth prevention clinic at king edward memorial hospital. I first read the whole nine yards when it first came out in 1986. Conditions are a little different with me now in north africa among the arabs. We have a string of 11 cars and they are enough to. Its origin is unknown and has been described by yale university librarian fred r. Whole nine yards, the internet movie firearms database. This is a business i began as a means of earning money for college.
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed april 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message. Shapiro, editor of the yale book of quotations, attributes the. Give us your name, address and number of books that you would like to order and well mail them to you. Thus the phrase give them the enemy the whole nine yards was born. Coupled with the finding of the whole nine yards from the same state in 1956, this suggests a rural or backwoods origin for the expression, rather than the military ones that have been most strongly advocated. And, man, have i had a lot of practice being knocked down. There are many theories about where the expression comes from among them squareriggers with three masts. The many and various explanations of the whole nine yards. If there is a staircase in your wedding plans, we can make it grand.
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