Why do people use the expression “The Whole Nine Yards”? Nine yards of what exactly?
The saying dates from the World War II and The Korean conflict, where “nine yards” was the length of an aircraft machine-gun ammunition belt loaded into the wings 50 cal., and to “go the full nine yards” was to use it up entirely. Todays fighters hold far more ammunition than those early planes and latter jets yo… Answer originally posted in response to Why do people use the expression “The Whole Nine Yards”?…
