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To the nines" is an idiom meaning "to perfection" or "to the highest degree". In modern English usage, the phrase most commonly appears as "dressed to the nines" or "dressed up to the nines". In modern English usage, the phrase most commonly appears as "dressed to the nines" or "dressed up to the nines".
To the nines is an idiom meaning "to perfection" or "to the highest degree". To the nines may also refer to: To the Nines (Only Crime album) To the Nines (Hatesphere album) To the Nines, a 2003 Janet Evanovich novel
Casting out nines is a quick way of testing the calculations of sums, differences, products, and quotients of integers in decimal, a method known as long ago as the 12th century. [ 3 ] 9 is the only square number that is the sum of two consecutive, positive cubes: 3 2 = 9 = 1 3 + 2 3 {\displaystyle 3^{2}=9=1^{3}+2^{3}} [ 4 ]
It also appears in the Rolling Stones' song "Tumbling Dice" ("sixes and sevens and nines"). The phrase is also used in the 1978 movie The Wiz , when Miss One gives Dorothy the silver slippers and comments, "Oh, don't be all sixes and sevens, honey" to Dorothy as Dorothy is in a state of confusion after killing the Wicked Witch of the East.
To the Nines is the ninth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.Written in 2003, it's the second book in a row that doesn't revolve around a criminal bond, and the first to take Stephanie out of New Jersey and into the neon glitz of Las Vegas.
The novensiles are invoked in a list of deities in a prayer formula preserved by the Augustan historian Livy.The prayer is uttered by Decius Mus (consul 340 BC) during the Samnite Wars as part of his vow to offer himself as a sacrifice to the infernal gods when a battle between the Romans and the Latins has become desperate.
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Today the women at the festival Are going to kill me for insulting them! [5]This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an ...