Hello everyone! What about the latest idiom?
Alright guys! your Idiom today is " Dress to the nines", which means "wearing very fashionable or expensive clothes".
Origin:
There's plenty of folk etymologies for the phrase that link clothing with the number nine. One says that the phrase comes from the nine yards of material a tailor needed to make a really nice suit. A few tailors, though, say four to five yards of fabric should be sufficient for a thre piece suit.
Another origin story says that the phrase refers to the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot, a British army regiment established in 1824, reportedly known for the immaculate condition of their uniforms.
Still another clothing origin suggests that the phrase descends from the Old English saying "dressed to the eyes, which, because Old English was weird, was written as "dressed to then eyne." The thinking goes that someone at some point heard "then eyne" and mistook it for "the nine" or "the nines." Short answer: nobody knows.
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