<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the whole 9 yards
The single, most absolutely correct origin of most euphemisms
is more difficult to pinpoint than the errant husband who doesn’t
make it straight home on Friday night, with paycheck intact.
A WWII P47-Thunderbolt fighter pilot’s definition of the term,
“the whole nine yards,” derives from the 27 ft. length of the gun
belts of ammo loaded into the canisters of each of his eight
wing-mounted Browning .50 caliber machineguns.
Boyd
