Bar-hopping (1950, 1954)

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Thu Jul 24 10:14:49 UTC 2003


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:48:26AM -0400, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>    29 October 1952, EAST LIVERPOOL REVIEW (East Liverpool, Ohio), pg.12, col.
> 2:
>    Everyone has heard the brushoff line: "Don't call us.  We'll call you."

This is also an antedating for this phrase, which we'd discussed before.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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