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Originally Posted by The Basket
The phrase the whole nine yards is a military saying.
A WW1 machine gun had a nine yard ammunition belt so to give it the whole nine yards was every round fired in a single burst.
Since I was educated under the metric system, I now have to find out what a yard is...excuse me.
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I like that one... that will be a future quiz question me thinks....
just found this...
It is said the .50 calibre machine gun ammunition belts in an aircraft of the period 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.