Meaning of the whole nine yards | Babel Free

Definitions

everything; often used, like etc., to finish out a list.

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Examples

“While there Roscoe went fishing and has a big story to tell, but we refuse to stand while he unloads. He will catch some unsuspecting individual some of these days and give him the whole nine yards.”

“"I had a good job, a nice little house, the whole nine yards," she said.”

“No, to her credit she kept right on going the whole time, telling me how she was from Mongolia, how she was an art student, how she was having an exhibition — the whole nine yards.”

“Mario asked me to explain to him the whole nine yards so I decided to start off on a good note.”

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