Worst case scenario: help wanted

[AAllan at AOL.COM]

Here's a request:

<< I am a public librarian and a patron is looking for the origin of the
phrase "worst case scenario."  We are thinking it has a military or legal
origin but none of my phrase dictionaries lists this.


Many thanks--sorry to have troubled you if this is not what you do.


Frieda Toth
tadeirf at hotmail.com >>

Is this not what we do? Hope so. If you have an answer, please include the
librarian as well as ADS-L in the address. - Allan Metcalf