在美国英语中,“the whole nine yards”是个非常流行的口语化表达,不过,它并不表示“9码”的长度,其真正的意思是“全部、一切、所有的”(everything, the whole lot)。中文里,你也可以把它翻译为:一应俱全、应有尽有。 关于the whole nine yards的起源,没有统一的说法。Wikipedia甚至称:“Its origin is ...
"The whole nine yards" originated as a uniquely American turn of phrase while remaining relatively unknown in Great Britain. That fact serves to dismiss one of three most popular theories of its origin, which has to do with the amount of cloth needed to fashion a Scottish kilt. Even if kil...
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 ...
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The phrase 'Tie The Knot' is used to indicate that a couple is getting married. Example of Use: “Christina and Bill are about to tie the knot. The wedding is on Saturday!” Interesting fact about Tie the Knot The origin of the term 'tie the knot' is unknown and ancient. What is ...
Thanks to his comments section I was referred back to the Wikipedia page on the phrase where, it turns out, someone in the last decade found not only a much earlier cite than the 1907 baseball reference but what is likely to be the true origin of the phrase. It comes from an old ...
We have a number of phrases to refer to the totality of something: we talk of the be-all and end-all, the whole nine yards, of doing something from soup to nuts. But before we had any of those words, we had alpha and omega. When it first entered English in the 1300s, it was...
The phrase our country seemed to make their heads snap back a little and their eyes goggle. Their answer, uniformly, was “Trump, Trump, Trump,” issued as a sort of barking. Trump’s criminal insults to democracy must be stopped, was the drift. My next question was: How’s “Joe ...
“He returned a whole ten books.”Whole, likevery,completely, and so forth, makes a trivial statement more emphatic; hence its allure. Rememberthe whole nine yards. Buzzwords The use of clichés allows one to speak like a machine and to be rewarded with a membership in a prestigious club...