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Subject: Re: Anyone know where this saying came f
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 13:15:00 EST
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/* ---------- "Anyone know where this saying came f" ---------- */
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...)