<P> The Oxford English Dictionary places the earliest published non-idiomatic use of the phrase in the New Albany ( Indiana ) Daily Ledger , January 30 , 1855 in an article called `` 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 ! '' The first known use of the phrase as an idiom appears in The Mitchell Commercial , a newspaper in the small town of Mitchell , Indiana , in its May 2 , 1907 edition : </P>
<P> The Oxford English Dictionary places the earliest published non-idiomatic use of the phrase in the New Albany ( Indiana ) Daily Ledger , January 30 , 1855 in an article called `` 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 ! '' The first known use of the phrase as an idiom appears in The Mitchell Commercial , a newspaper in the small town of Mitchell , Indiana , in its May 2 , 1907 edition : </P>
where did the term whole 9 yards come from
where did the term whole 9 yards come from
New Albany ( Indiana ) Daily Ledger , January 30 , 1855 in an article called `` The Judge 's Big Shirt . ''
New Albany ( Indiana ) Daily Ledger , January 30 , 1855 in an article called `` The Judge 's Big Shirt . ''