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What does it mean when you are giving someone the whole 9 yards?

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What does it mean when you are giving someone the whole 9 yards?

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Answer :

The whole nine yards is the length of the tail gunners machine gun magazine belt. Giving someone the whole nine yards means you will blow him to smithereens.

BTW - Smithereens is from the Irish Gaelic smidir ( small fragments )
 
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Actually, it is the "shortest sentence" that contains every.......

Not true. there are shorter panagrams such as "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz". These two sentences are used for the text display at different point sizes in a .ttf or .otf font file. The sentence displayed will vary, depending on which font making software is used.

The most commonly used French panagram is "Portez ce vieux whiskey au juge blond qui fume".