the whole, how shall we say, nine yards (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Though I doubt it began as a Kentucky regionalism, I checked with the
KY
> special collections library that has A glossary of argot in use at the
USPHS
> hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, 1958. The phrase does not appear there.
> The phrase appears to be not only an Americanism but, fairly early on,
> attested in many different states.
>
> Stephen Goranson
> www.duke.edu/~goranson
>

David Maurer was from KY, was he not?  Does he have any papers extant
that can be checked?
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