The Whole Nine Yards

What is meant by the saying, the whole nine yards?

Now that we can look back on our lives, have you had the ' whole nine yards?'

Public Comments

1. in this terminology it asks if you have given life your all and lived life to the fullest. it comes from WW1 when the bullets for aircraft were placed on 9 yard long fabric . if you used up all your machine gun bullets you gave it the whole 9 yards.
2. Yup . The whole Ball Game . GF Scored HUGE lol D :)
3. Squirsh has the correct answer...comes from the length of how machine gun loads were packed...9 yards long.
4. Eight yards and punted.The story of my life.
5. so far,so good.but im only in my 50's,so i (hopefully) still have about 2 yards to go!
6. yeh but you should define it better so everyone understands it..
7. It means the whole kit n caboodle. I'm not sure if I have. I need to rethink my strategy concerning the whole nine yards, there may be another yard or two, thrown in for good measure I need to look into.
8. That like getting your cake and eating it too. As far as life goes---nope.
9. Well, it ain't over till the fat lady sings! I've paid my dues, gone the extra mile, put my shoulder to the grindstone, and now I expect to reap the rewards. My ship has come in and I'm ready to sail.....
10. Many times. Working on a new set. We don't need no stinkin bullets/
11. First time I heard it was in basic training so I always thought it had a military connection. I have had more than the whole nine yards.
12. Nine yds. = a full cement truck. It means "all of it". I've done my share of wheelbarrowing the whole nine yds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_whole_nine_yards I love when someone TDs me when I have a correct answer. That's a reflection on them. It took me all of 10 seconds to verify what I already knew.
13. All of it is the meaning I ascribe to it. And yes looking back I think I've experienced ,0st of the who,e nine yards--funny and it seems to keep on coming--just like that little pink bunny.
14. 5 down, 4 to go.