On 6/30/2014 9:01 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/books/the-whole-nine-yards-seeking-a-phrases-origin.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
I have two problems with that. It doesn't give any explanation for the
meaning or derivation of "the whole six yards" any more than it explains
"the whole nine yards".
Secondly, the phrase appeared in print as "the whole nine yards" in
1907, predating their finding of "the whole six yards" in 1912.
We're still left with the question "the whole six/nine yards" of what?
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