Date:  Fri, 10 May 1996 10:06:20 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: out-of-pocket



> place.' We have quite a few contemporary examples, but nothing earlier than

> the late 1960s. So if anyone can come up with an earlier citation, or even

> a recollection of the use of the phrase before that, I'd like to see it.



I would be surprised to learn that it didn't exist before the '60s, but

I don't trust my memory enough to swear that I used it or heard it before

then. It "feels" like an expression I've known all my life.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

   born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1943