Q: What's the origin of "the whole nine yards"? One of the most common sources for this expression is military. During WorldWar II,U.S. fighter planes in the South Pacific were often equipped with machine gun ammunition belts. These belts, when stretched out on the ground, measure approx...
the whole nine yards n.the entire amount; everything. (Origin unknown. It does not matter what substance is being referred to. It means all of it, no matter what it is.)For you I’ll go the whole nine yards. See also:nine,whole,yard ...
Oh, You Mean "The Whole Nine YARNS" Dear Evan: Recently, while in a boat shop, I was challenged to find the origin of the phrase "The whole nine yards..." My challenger says this phrase is nautical in origin, having something to do with yard arms on square-riggers. Sounds ...
It comes from an old joke story about a judge who asks someone to make him three shirts out of nine yards of cloth only to receive a giant shirt made from “the whole nine yards”. Although we’re lacking a “missing link” between the two, the expression must have gained currency fro...
JOHN NIELSEN
2. Christianity, in accentuating as the first of virtues, the essentially female morality of sex, really, tended to drag men down to the level of mere males. When “sex” interpenetrates the whole personality a sexual ethic is obviously the dominant one. Chastity – as in the case of wome...
ago,mygrandfatherwas 1 hisfavoriteexpression.Thefollowingday,asIcompletedmywork,I 2 abeeontheskylight(天窗).Thoughthe skylightwasparticularlyhigh,Ithought 3 the beewouldtakeonlyfiveminutes.Anhourlater, thebeestillremained.Whathadchangedwasthat theroom wasmessyandthatIwas 4 from lookingupintothesunlight...
The central Core must and does always remain at the point of origin, at source. The tree is maintained through its roots, grounded as they are deep within the earth. Titles are empty unless enfleshed with the spiritual egregore of the Clan or Family, which unlike Wicca is not self –...
The design of the class was of German origin. Although Germany was prohibited from owning or developing submarines after WWI, development did indeed continue—the yards simply moved their engineering departments to Holland. Several countries, in addition to the Soviet Union, purchased designs from ...
etc. There is not much in the way of trying to explain the origin of sport as such (I supposed Sansone takes himself as having established that in the first essay). Like the first essay, I found the discussion itself very interesting, in particular some of the striking similarities in dis...