3/6/8/12 ways from sunday origin?

Question

I have heard a few numbers like: 3, 6, 8, 12 ways from sunday. Does anyone know what exactly it means? What it's origin is? Thanks!

Answer 1

The phrase means to do something thoroughly and completely, having done it everyway possible, or to approach a task with zeal or gusto. The number refers to how many different ways it will be done. I'm not sure about 3 or 12, but 6 refers to the remaining days until Sunday, saying it will be done a different way everyday. 8 has similair origin, using the fact that theres only 7 days in a week, it will be done like there's 8 days in that week. (like the Beatle's song "8 days a week")

Answer 2

The original expression was Six ways from Sunday and is pretty well self-
explanatory: Different ways of DOING. The obvious reference in the Western
and predominately Christian theology of ENGLISH SPEAKING people who
mostly accepted Sunday as the Sabbath and 1st of a 7 day week -- leaving
6 days "of forgetting and doing things the mortal self way" before being REMINDED at church the following Sunday. These people HAD COMMON
SENSE, not TV, radio, movies, news etc. And they understood a good laugh
at one another's human weaknesses. They were also MUCH MORE OF A
CHRIST AND GOD oriented people than the mainstream of today's world
which would argue for 4 years and have court battles over whether to print
In God We Trust on a coin. They knew WHY the Pilgrims came etc.
HA! If you were old and grey like me, you would have known too. God Bless