Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:36:08 -0600

From: Joan Houston Hall jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

Subject: Re: Katie bar the door



The evidence DARE received from our query in NADS showed the expression

"Katie bar the door" to be very widespread in the US, and definitely not

new--people remember it from very early in this century.



Joan Hall