Idiom of the Day
take liberties with (someone or something)
to use or abuse someone or something
The girl is taking liberties with her friend by always borrowing her car.
Fact
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
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