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[Laurence Horn]

At 1:22 PM -0800 3/14/02, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>Never heard this phrase used as your buddy uses it.  I would not
>even understand it.
>Fritz from Oregon
>
>>>>  Mark Lechter <marklechter at RCN.COM> 03/14/02 11:01AM >>>
>My friend and I have a question regarding the proper usage of
>"out-of-pocket."  I say it relates to either "requiring an outlay of
>cash" or "having little or no money."
>
>My partner uses the term with reference to not being available by phone
>or otherwise.  He will tell people that he could not contact them or
>that they could not contact him because he was "out-of-pocket" for a
>while (i,e - he was in California and incommunicado).  He says it is
>West Coast slang (he is from the West and I am from the East), but I
>just think that it' is the wrong usage.
>
>Can anybody help us settle this matter?
>
>Mark Lechter
>NYC

didn't we just have a long discussion of this, which should be
available at the archive?  I remember saying I'd never heard it and
then various folks jumped in and said of course, everyone uses "out
of pocket" to mean 'unreachable'.  couldn't have been more than two
months ago.

larry