Idiom of the Day
take the starch out of (someone)
to make someone less arrogant, to make someone tired and weak
The criticism by the teacher took the starch out of the girl who thought that she was the best in the class.
Fact
The term the whole 9 yards came from WWII fighter pilots in thePacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 calibermachine gunammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into thefuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the whole 9yards.
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