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]
(..) When she comes back, you're gonna have her building mazes. - Where are you gonna be? - I gotta go visit Eames. Eames? No, he's in Mombasa. It's Cobol's back yard. It's a necessary risk. - Well, there's plenty of good thieves. - We don't just need a thief. We need a forger. (..)2010 Inception