parce que c'est le fete de Bastille

[Bernard W. Kane]

Why won't a single dictionary editor admit this expression into his book?

barricades; to (at, on) the
barricades; man (woman) the

Have collected and submitted more than a dozen examples of this idiom from
respected periodicals, by well-regarded authors, over a period of the last
ten years, attesting to its general acceptance, but nobody wants to print
it.

DEF = (to join) the revolution; to be a revolutionary; to prepare to do
battle for the Cause (any cause); to be where the new action is (as in 1789)

Aux armes, citoyens!

Bernie Kane
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