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(as of Dec 15, 2007)- Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
- Walk on Eggs
- Walking on Air
- Warm the Cockles of the Heart
- Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve
- Whole Nine Yards
- With Flying Colors
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- Word of Mouth
- Work out
- Worth Your Salt
Sample Idiom
Whole Nine Yards
Sentence
He's loaded everything we need in the truck already - the whole nine yards!
Explanation
to include everything
Origin
This idiom comes from World War II fighter pilots, whose planes were outfitted with
machine-gun ammunition that measures up to 27 feet. If a pilot expended all his
ammunition on a mission, he would say, "I gave them the whole nine yards."
