Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The whole nine yards or full nine yards is a colloquial American phrase meaning "everything, the whole lot" or, when used as an adjective, "all the way," as in, "The Army came out and gave us the whole nine yards on how they use space systems." Its origin is unknown and has been described as "the most prominent etymological riddle of our time."The earliest known example of this phrase is from 1907 in southern Indiana."@en }
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- The_whole_nine_yards comment "The whole nine yards or full nine yards is a colloquial American phrase meaning "everything, the whole lot" or, when used as an adjective, "all the way," as in, "The Army came out and gave us the whole nine yards on how they use space systems." Its origin is unknown and has been described as "the most prominent etymological riddle of our time."The earliest known example of this phrase is from 1907 in southern Indiana.".