英语词汇“the whole nine yards”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). the whole (also the full, the entire, all) nine yards: everything, the whole lot; (also as adv.) all the way. Later also the whole nine.Apparently originating in the frequently repeated comic story cited in quot. 1855. Early examples are all from the same district on the border of Indiana and Kentucky. A parallel expression, the whole six yards, is occasionally attested in the early 20th cent.

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1855 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 30 Jan. 1/4 ‘The Judge's Big Shirt’... What a silly, stupid woman! I told her to get just enough to make three shirts; instead of making three, she has put the whole nine yards into one shirt!]

1907 Mitchell (Indiana) Commerc. 2 May The regular nine is going to play the business men as many innings as they can stand, but we can not promise the full nine yards.

1908 Mitchell (Indiana) Commerc. 4 June 3/5 Roscoe went fishing and has a big story to tell... He will catch some unsuspecting individual some of these days and give him the whole nine yards.

1956 Kentucky Happy Hunting Ground July 18/2 The Kentucky Afield Fishing Derbies are underway!.. There are a total of six derbies; a Grand Prize Derby, and a derby a month at at a major Kentucky fishing spot... So that's the whole nine-yards.

1962 Car Life Dec. 2 Your staff of testers cannot fairly and equitably appraise the Chevrolet Impala sedan, with all nine yards of goodies, against the Plymouth Savoy which has straight shift and none of the mechanical conveniences which are quite common now.

1981 Washington Post 16 Jan. (Weekend section) 20/3 A Japanese disaster film, Virus, goes the whole nine yards, showing the city as a deserted freeway underpass.

1992 N. George Buppies, B-Boys 65 These kids are baaaaaaad little dudes with beepers and the whole nine.

1994 J. R. Feagin & M. P. Sikes Living with Racism iv. 165 I had to go through the entire nine yards of my probation.

2008 Independent on Sunday 6 Jan. (New Review) 26/4 Guns, girls, murder, the whole nine yards, as old friends are killed.

单词	the whole nine yards
释义	> as lemmas the whole (also the full, the entire, all) nine yards e. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). the whole (also the full, the entire, all) nine yards: everything, the whole lot; (also as adv.) all the way. Later also the whole nine.Apparently originating in the frequently repeated comic story cited in quot. 1855. Early examples are all from the same district on the border of Indiana and Kentucky. A parallel expression, the whole six yards, is occasionally attested in the early 20th cent. ΚΠ 1855 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 30 Jan. 1/4 ‘The Judge's Big Shirt’... What a silly, stupid woman! I told her to get just enough to make three shirts; instead of making three, she has put the whole nine yards into one shirt!] 1907 Mitchell (Indiana) Commerc. 2 May The regular nine is going to play the business men as many innings as they can stand, but we can not promise the full nine yards. 1908 Mitchell (Indiana) Commerc. 4 June 3/5 Roscoe went fishing and has a big story to tell... He will catch some unsuspecting individual some of these days and give him the whole nine yards. 1956 Kentucky Happy Hunting Ground July 18/2 The Kentucky Afield Fishing Derbies are underway!.. There are a total of six derbies; a Grand Prize Derby, and a derby a month at at a major Kentucky fishing spot... So that's the whole nine-yards. 1962 Car Life Dec. 2 Your staff of testers cannot fairly and equitably appraise the Chevrolet Impala sedan, with all nine yards of goodies, against the Plymouth Savoy which has straight shift and none of the mechanical conveniences which are quite common now. 1981 Washington Post 16 Jan. (Weekend section) 20/3 A Japanese disaster film, Virus, goes the whole nine yards, showing the city as a deserted freeway underpass. 1992 N. George Buppies, B-Boys 65 These kids are baaaaaaad little dudes with beepers and the whole nine. 1994 J. R. Feagin & M. P. Sikes Living with Racism iv. 165 I had to go through the entire nine yards of my probation. 2008 Independent on Sunday 6 Jan. (New Review) 26/4 Guns, girls, murder, the whole nine yards, as old friends are killed. extracted from nineadj.n. < as lemmas
随便看	to lead the van to lead the way to lead through to lead to to lead to or up to to lead to the altar to lead to the altar, to church to lead up to lead up the garden to lead up the garden path to lead up to to lead with one's chin to lead, rarely give a dance to lead, rarely give a person a dance to lead, set the fashion to leaf over to leaf through to league against to leak out to lean against to lean backward to lean beside one's cushion to lean beside the cushion to lean in to lean into

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