"[T]he whole nine-yards" (July, 1956)
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Jul 26 15:47:17 UTC 2012
At 7/26/2012 11:32 AM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake wrote:
>"So that's the whole nine-yards. The rules are simple. You'll find
>them and everything you need to know on the inside page of every entry
>blank."
So if this is the original, did the phrase originally mean
"everything", "all you need to know", "the whole caboodle"?
Joel
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