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How many can you think of?

daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
"gun shy" "go off half cocked" "lock stock and barrel" "trigger happy" "lock and load"..........any more?
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Flash in the pan.""The whole nine yards."There was an episode on "Tales of the Gun" on the History channel some time back that went through a great litany of gun related, commonly used, phrases. Can't remember 'em though. Mudge the senile
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS![This message has been edited by mudge (edited 12-07-2001).]
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    mudge- what does "the whole nine yards" relate to? I thought that was in terms that the large parachute took nine yards to make.
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  • Gene B.Gene B. Member Posts: 892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That how much fabric there is in one of those wheel things at a fabric store.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    Lock, stock, and barrel.Quick on the trigger.Nine yards reportedly has to do with the amount of ammunition a figher plane could carry. 27 feet of linked ammo. When a pilot came home empty, he was said to have given them the whole nine yards.
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  • jazzjazz Member Posts: 83 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Have Gun, Will Travel!""If all else fails......SHOOT!""Loaded and Racked....Another form ofGun Control!""Hey Geraldo!....That's right the bullseyegoes on the back of the jacket!"
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    saxon as usual,you get the gold star.Three masted ships carred three sails each.Under full sail was referd to as the whole nine yards.Like in hangem from the yard arm!.
    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • soopsoop Member Posts: 4,633
    edited November -1
    Keep you powder dry.
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Well, the whole nine yards also refers to a 9 yard long machine gun belt in fighter aircraft, though the naval reference is probably earlier.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • Patrick OdlePatrick Odle Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1. Short end of the stick.2.Not worth a tinker's dam.3.By guess and by golly.4.How do you low.5.Two shovels shy of a full load.6.Not worth two hoots in hell.7.Hand full of gimmie and a mouth full of much-obliged. Does every one know what they are sayingwhen they use these terms.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The "whole nine yards" that I was referring to was the length of the ammo belt for a WWIIfighter.Never heard the naval reference before.The day's not a complete waste after all!I learned something new. Mudge the educable
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Another theory has it that a cement mixer carries 9 yards when fully loaded, thus the whole nine yards. We have discussed this several times, and somewhere once saw the 27 foot linked ammo belt said to be the true origin.Keep your powder dry.Lock and Load. [This message has been edited by He Dog (edited 12-07-2001).]
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always liked the line that Estelle Getty the little mother on golden girls had when she was asked if she knew karate. "No, but I've always found a gaping chest wound to be a good deterrent." I think that was before PC TV.
    " Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects" Will Rogers
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  • ibtruknibtrukn Member Posts: 443 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was in an F51 oufit then f86's for a while. Never heard the term "whole nine yards " used for anything just my nsho but then again stood gard dooty with a pack of camels an a zippo lighter. so what wood I no?[This message has been edited by ibtrukn (edited 12-07-2001).]
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Don`t shoot till ya see the whites of their eyes!
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've also heard it takes nine yards of cloth to make a monk's outfit, so 'the whole nine yards' signified a monk's commitment.I've also heard all the other explanations."He shoots from the hip""A real square shooter"
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    The whole shootin match.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    All thumbs and no fingers!He who is lost hesitates!Moving a mile a minute!Like a bat out of hell!Slower than granny's rocking chair!The hole nine yards-my wife's mouth at full gossip!
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    God didn't make man equal, Sam Colt did.
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  • SXSMANSXSMAN Member Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Both barrels""Cocked and locked and ready to rock!"
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    hotter than a two-dollar pistol.i believe in reference to the first jennings models (and all since).
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  • the loveable rat...the loveable rat... Member Posts: 969 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "if at first you don't succeed...shoot the crap out of it"-Alexander Graham Bell or somebody...
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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    Back to battery.Kentucky windage.Brass Monkey.
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  • JBJB Member Posts: 88 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lock Stock & Barrel actualy refer to buying a piece of property. You are buying the lock to the place, all of the stock(be it animals or inventory, and (realy old ) even the barrels with the inventory in them( such as pickle barrels, nail barrels, and?)
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rock and roll.. fire on the hole.. Blast em baby!.. give em lead !.. let em have it !.. Swageit ! make may day! asta la vista baby! lets go BOoM! BOoM ! Chonca chonca ? mmm ! that last one is not for guns ... HE HE HE
    Good , Bad ? Who cares? as long I am the one with the GUN... and the brains !
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  • JBJB Member Posts: 88 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you really love someone.Let them go.If they dont come back.Hunt them down and kill them
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