Hi,
>THANKS! However, the below has about every possible etymology
>EXCEPT the one I am betting on, i.e., the lenght of an ammo belt
>used in the wing machine guns of American and English WWII
>fighter planes:(
You mean, as in the paragraph:
>> Yet another explanation is that it was invented by fighter pilots in the
>> Pacific during World War Two. It is said the .50 calibre machine gun
>> ammunition belts in Supermarine Spitfires measured exactly 27 feet. If
>> the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, they would say that it got
>> "the whole nine yards". A merit of this claim is that it would explain
>> why the phrase only began to be recorded after the War.
Regards,
- Sten
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