Here are some answers... http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/19981012.html
and http://forum.arstechnica.com/forum/ubb/Forum3/HTML/003656.html
At 10:29 2003-11-24 +1100, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear All,
Does anyone know the origin of the expression, 'The whole nine yards'?
The reason that I ask is that my wife was reading a novel (Sleeper Spy by William Safire) when she came across the claim that 'The whole nine yards' referred to a full load of ready-mixed cement.
The metric connection in asking this question is the thought that populist lines like 'The whole nine yards' do efforts toward metrication little good.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia
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