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Michael Quinion, who writes a lively Web page about new words ( quinion/words), reports the speculation that it may have to do with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Monty to his troops, who cut a splendid figure in full regalia. Another points to a Liverpool haberdashery selling arriving sailors an entire shore outfit. One school holds that it comes from a card game, either monte bank or three-card monte, the phrase derived from a pile, or mountain, of cards. to go the Full Monty, vb., to take all one's clothes off, to go the whole way, to be totally naked.'' The phrase is being spread around the world by the success of a low-budget British comedy-drama from Fox Searchlight Pictures titled ''The Full Monty.'' In it, the main character says, ''The Full Monty.don't think I relish the idea of pulling off my kegs and showing my lunch box to the world.'' Fox publicity defines the phrase this way: ''1. That metaphoric reference to nudity is repeated in the movie section of The Boston Herald: ''Apparently Tinseltown is atwitter over 'Boogie Nights,' the New Line Cinema flick where Mark Wahlberg, 26, does The Full Monty, snorts coke and God knows what else as porn star Dirk Diggler.'' On this side of the Atlantic, The San Diego Union-Tribune ran a story about the Carlsbad City Council's zoning restrictions to avert garishness: ''Carlsbad has reached the point where it can afford to go the full monty - full frontal snobbery.'' Whatever you call the conveyance, a full, rotating load supposedly contains the whole nine yards.) (I say it's a cement truck they call it a concrete truck. Diligent research, buttressed by many letters from construction workers, points to the cubic contents of a cement truck. No, this had nothing to do with football (you need 10 yards, not 9, for a first down) or material for a wedding dress. Its replacement in the past generation had been the whole nine yards. Everything, including the kitchen sink.įor nearly a century, the collective slang of choice by such writers as Walt Whitman, Bret Harte and Mark Twain was the shebang, a term meaning ''a hut, shed, tent or dilapidated dwelling,'' perhaps from the Irish shebaan, or ''lowly tavern'' by metaphoric extension, the whole shebang came to mean ''the entire setup.'' After a good run, the shebang seems to be closing its tent. How do you describe ''every-thing''? I don't mean a few cosmic items, or a bunch of stuff I mean the whole shootin' match, the works, the entire kit and caboodle, the whole ball of wax.
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