Antedating of "Bat Out of Hell"

[Fred Shapiro]

bat out of hell (OED 1921, HDAS 1909)

1906 _The Cosmopolitan_ May [article beginning on page 81] (American
Periodical Series)  A peon shot back the bolt of the bull-pen door and in
poured the bull like a bat out of hell.

Fred Shapiro


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