The Full Nine Yards. The whole nine yards 2000 bruce willis hires stock photography and images Alamy The sergeant major didn't hold back with the new recruits and gave them the whole nine yards with his appraisal of their marching skills The phrase "The whole nine yards" is derived from American airmen in the Pacific during World War Two
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At that time, the ammunition belts loaded into the wings of the fighter aircraft were nine. It's closely related to "the whole six yards," from Kentucky and South Carolina.
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The story behind "the whole nine yards" is deeply rooted in American idioms origin At that time, the ammunition belts loaded into the wings of the fighter aircraft were nine. The sergeant major didn't hold back with the new recruits and gave them the whole nine yards with his appraisal of their marching skills
The whole nine yards bruce willis hires stock photography and images Alamy. The sergeant major didn't hold back with the new recruits and gave them the whole nine yards with his appraisal of their marching skills Use of the full phrase was for a long time restricted to the American Midwest, in particular to the region around the Kentucky-Indiana border, before breaking out into general American parlance in the.
The Whole Nine Yards Endings and New Beginnings (HD CLIP) YouTube. Early example of 'the full nine yards': The earliest known example that I know of of a variant of the phrase is from an Indiana newspaper The Mitchell Commercial, Indiana May 1907: This afternoon at 2:30 will be called one of the baseball games that will be worth going a long way to see 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