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Where did the phrase “the whole nine yards” come from…..why nine?

April 26, 2017Education phrase quotations Reference the whole nine yards

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Where did the phrase “the whole nine yards” come from…..why nine?

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I have heard that this is a reference to gunners on helicopters… Those big machine guns in the door of some helicopters had nine yards of bullets, so if you shot them all at once, you “went the whole nine yards”… Not sure if this is true, though…