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The Whole Nine Yards

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Posted on | October 29, 2004 | No Comments

The term “The Whole Nine Yards” stems from WWII where the bullet clips used for the machine guns on American planes stretched 27 feet. When a machine gun operator used an entire clip on a plane he would say he gave him “the whole nine yards”. (27ft=9yards).

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