antedating (?) "Katy, bar the door" (1890)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 10/3/07, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> Fashion Smiles Approval Without Reserve It Sets the Seal of Commendation upon
> the Komoi (Arts & Entertainment)
>       The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL) Saturday, April 19, 1890; pg.
> 6; Issue
> 26; col A
> ....And when fashion and the Komoi join hands it is, as the mayor
> observed last
> night after deep thought, Katy bar the door.


1888 _Current Literature_ Dec. 499/1 When she say that, hits 'Katy,
bar ther do, then, fer she's gwineter do it.
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--Ben Zimmer

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