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the whole nine yards

 
See:
yard
part of speech: phrase
definition: the whole thing or every possible thing, or to the greatest extent necessary or possible; the whole way.
I told her we could only finish the first half, but she wants the whole nine yards by next week.Everybody contributed a little to the effort, but he went the whole nine yards.