"Whole Nine Yards" & "Fat Lady Sings" in Yale Alumni Magazine

[Shapiro, Fred]

My regular column in the Yale Alumni Magazine, in the current Mar./Apr. 2014 issue, briefly discusses Bonnie Taylor-Blake's huge recent discoveries about "whole nine yards" and Garson O'Toole's great work on precursors of "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings."  Here is a link to the online version:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3838

Fred Shapiro

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org