Posted on 05/30/2023 4:52:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76
The practice bled over into hockey about 30 years later.
* In cricket, taking a batsman's wicket is the same as striking him out, only it's done with just a single pitch by knocking the bail off the top of the stumps. From a scoring standpoint, taking three wickets in three tosses would be the same as striking out the first three batters in an inning buy throwing nothing but unhit strikes.
...... and still the area is getting too crowded.....
There are 250 rounds in a can of linked ammunition for the Browning M2. Measured from primer to primer, each link is about an inch long. 250 inches is not quite seven yards.
“...... and still the area is getting too crowded.....”
LOL...isn’t that the truth!??
“I read a long time ago the whole nine yards referred to the amount of material used to make a royal’s dress.”
I’ve come to the conclusion that there are any number of explanations for many of these older sayings, each as probable as any other. We’ll probably never really know where some of them come from.
I thought the same.
CAN ONE TRACE THE PHRASE ‘WHOLE NINE YARDS’ TO WWII? KIND OF…
Neil Oliver's page at GB News:
That history.net piece states pretty clearly that the machine-gun-belt story was not the actual origin. I agree with oldvirginian that we’ll never know for certain about that saying and lots of others.
The version I heard was that it was the Biltmore Hat Company in Guelph, Ontario (sadly went bankrupt a few years back), who originally gave out the hats.
Very true, just like we'll never know who in the Clinton White House hired Craig Livingstone.
Had a lot of time to think while rubbin’ in the compound and buffin’ up the Starbrite, eh?
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