A: Why did he need to hire a pickup to go to college?

B: He decided to take everything to college — his books, his stereo, his computer, his skis, 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 source of this expression is not known, but there are several possibilities: the amount of cloth required to make a complete suit of clothes; the fully set sails of a three-masted ship where each mast carries three yards, that is, spars, to support the sails; or the amount of cement (in cubic yards) contained in a cement mixer for a big construction job.