zigzackly’s omnium-gatherum
Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Saturday, 9 July 2005
Scots Wa' Hae
We have it on
good authority
that the definitive earliest known citation of the phrase "the whole nine yards" has nothing to do with machine guns and all that. It dates back to a
romantic moment in Bonnie Scotland
.
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