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"The whole nine yards."
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"The whole nine yards."
Just saw a special....
That matches what I read somewhere.
That's the correct answer.
Interesting... as the other explanations don't seem to work...
Snopes' pooh-poohs
I've always thought is was a sailing reference
The use of that reference just wasn't contemporaneous?
It sounds like the term didn't come into popular use until after the 1950s
It's boggled a lot of minds beyond ours. ;^))))
Don't think so..
Some did, some didn't
