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AE 1209 - Expression: The Whole Nine Yards

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The Importance of Supporting Your Mate

My wife just threw everything in the kitchen sink at making my daughter's birthday as cool as possible. She went the whole nine yards. My grandfather, my dad's dad was a fighter pilot in the Second World War. He never saw action because he was in a plane crash or an accident before he had a chance to go and fight. However, he did know a lot of men who went to war,. who flew out in these planes and they, you know, took out the weapons. They had ammunition. So if they came back and they had no bullets, they had used the whole nine Yards literally, but they had also gone the whole 9 yards fighting their hearts out and using up

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