the whole nine yards
informal mainly USeverything you can possibly want, have, or do in a particular situation :
When I was little, my family always had lots of pets - dogs, cats, hamsters, fish, rabbits - the whole nine yards.
The weather was terrible but I wanted to go the whole nine yards and get to the top of the mountain.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Continue & last
- (it's) business as usual idiom
- bash on
- carry (sth) on
- cease
- cont
- contd
- drag
- keep at sth
- keep on doing sth
- keep on trucking idiom
- keep sb at it idiom
- nine
- push
- run on
- run over (sth)
- see sth out
- segue
- soldier on
- stick
- string
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