ayers@convexs.UUCP (02/07/85)
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How about the saying "the whole nine yards"?
Does anyone know what it was derived from?
I mean, shouldn't that be 10 yards?
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You need to go WAY back:
a "winding sheet" was nine yards long (used to wrap corpses in)...
blues, II
(the opinions expressed here are those of my great-uncle Julius...)