where did the saying give them the whole 9 yards come from
The whole nine yards The idiom was used three more times in the Mitchell Commercial over the next seven years, in the forms give him the whole nine yards (i.e., tell someone a big story),[6] take the whole nine yards (i.e., take everything),[7] and settled the whole nine yards (i.e., resolved everything).[8]
Charles Dudley Warner Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.[4]
Shekhinah This term does not occur in the Bible, and is from rabbinic literature.[2]:148[3][4]
To the nines The phrase is said to be Scots in origin.[2] The earliest written example of the phrase is from the 1719 Epistle to Ramsay by the Scottish poet William Hamilton: