The whole nine yards

    一切、全部A: Did you go to her housewarming party?

    B: Yeah. You should have seen how she decorated the house for the party. She went the whole nine yards.

    Note: “The whole nine yards” or “full nine yards” is a colloquial American phrase meaning “everything, the whole lot” or, when used as an adjective, “all the way.” The earliest known example of this phrase is from 1907 in southern Indiana. It is related to the expression “the whole six yards,” used around the same time in Kentucky and South Carolina. Both phrases are variations on “the whole ball of wax,” first recorded in the 1880s. They are part of a family of expressions in which an odd-sounding item, such as enchilada, shooting match, shebang or hog, is substituted for “ball of wax.” The choice of the number nine may be related to the expression “to the nines” (to perfection).