[Ads-l] A recent revision to the OED's online "the whole nine yards" entry

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 12 21:23:30 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> what is in every body's mouth be true.


Shouldn't that be, "What I tell you three times is true"? ;-)



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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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