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To: Paal Gulli; Oil Object Insp; Track9; TexasGator; oldvirginian; HartleyMBaldwin

Hmmm. Thanks. Neil Oliver, who is an archaologist/historian from Scotland is the individual I heard it from. He's also a presenter on GB News. I just did a search, and found the same explanation for the saying on several sites, one being history.net:

CAN ONE TRACE THE PHRASE ‘WHOLE NINE YARDS’ TO WWII? KIND OF…

Neil Oliver's page at GB News:

Neil Oliver Live

47 posted on 05/30/2023 9:43:42 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )

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To: mass55th; oldvirginian

That history.net piece states pretty clearly that the machine-gun-belt story was not the actual origin. I agree with oldvirginian that we’ll never know for certain about that saying and lots of others.

48 posted on 05/30/2023 10:45:22 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin

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