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Originally Posted by Grant Bowker
In the interest of inter-service rivalry, I can't see a reason that the navy couldn't claim the phrase too... Perhaps three masts, each with three yards would give the whole nine yards?
How many good (or bad) stories can we come up with?
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Weren't sails called 'sheets' on wind powered naval vessels, hence the phrase "three sheets to the wind"?
I think your Citadel friend may have been an army dude, I don't think 250 rounds of Vickers makes anything close to nine yards. Maybe in metric it does??
(aside, ain't Halifax the greatest place on earth?)