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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Barry, Sam, Fred and others have worked on this.  My original post went
to the ADS-L and the OED.  Did you guys send your antedatings
(antedations?) to the OED?

Does someone from the OED regulary scour this list?  Jesse, do you
forward results to the home office?




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> don't call us .. (we'll call you) (phr.):
> antedate 1987, or any exx. in print
> (now antedated to 1959; variants also accepted (e.g. with 'ring'))
>
> "Guys and Dolls Lexicon" By GILBERT MILLSTEIN. _New York
> Times_; Feb 17, 1952; Magazine section, pg. 20 col 3.
> "Keep in touch with the office -- Means the reverse; don't
> bother us; stay out of the way; a variation of the casting
> director's "Don't call us, we'll call you." "
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