I served a huge Thanksgiving dinner: turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie—'the whole nine yards'. [=all the foods that are traditionally served for Thanksgiving dinner]
If we're going to replace the cabinets, we might as well 'go the whole nine yards' [=do everything that there is to do] and remodel the entire kitchen.
a rail 'yard' [=a place where railroad cars are kept and repaired]
(..) I'm serious. You can be whatever you wanna be, David. - So can you. - Exactly. We could really buy a house, couldn't we, with a yard? We could get the boys a dog and a tire swing. Those boys don't want a tire swing, they want a TV (..)2005 TvShow: Six Feet Under Title: Everyone's Waiting Season: 5 Episode 12