"[T]he whole nine-yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>
> >"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"?
>


It may be better not to think of this cite as "the original", but rather
as "the earliest found so far."
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