[Ads-l] "kitty-bar"

[Laurence Horn]

That's great.  I haven't encountered a kitty-bar in our neighborhood (they'd probably just have a lot of craft milk on tap)--it's probably just around the kitty-corner.

I love the @bgzimmer alert in the the Callan comment...

LH

> On Feb 22, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thedailybeast.com_articles_2016_02_22_this-2Dis-2Dthe-2Ddate-2Dbernie-2Dsanders-2Dberns-2Dout.html&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=ZBmTm-idAY5Tt-g_QlMzYVLtgyZnP99-DA9Bvs7giO8&s=O34xehYsyObCwTFzgui7hA5vvcxlhoKKGDdpvEz1p9k&e= 
> Goldie Taylor, "This Is the Date Bernie Sanders Berns Out"
> "Some would argue that a window of opportunity slammed shut Sunday
> night in Nevada and that the upcoming race in South Carolina is the
> proverbial kitty-bar."
> 
> On Twitter, Linda Holmes speculates that this is based on an eggcornic
> mishearing of "Katie, bar the door."
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_nprmonkeysee_status_701889787410702337&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=ZBmTm-idAY5Tt-g_QlMzYVLtgyZnP99-DA9Bvs7giO8&s=glSaVVtEZ_wzz6CZxbX5TXbonDgkDs5a6qUGMSgLSfY&e= 
> 
> Makes sense to me, though I can't find much in the way of kitty-bars
> online, proverbial or otherwise. FWIW, Goldie Taylor was born in
> University City, MO and raised in East St. Louis, IL, before moving to
> Atlanta.
> 
> --bgz
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