Katie

Katie, bar the door

A call to ready oneself for imminent danger. Katie, bar the door—trouble's coming!
See also: bar, door
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Katie bar the door

Prepare immediately for an advancing threat. Katie bar the door, the grandchildren are here and they all look hungry.
See also: bar, door, Katie
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

Katie, bar the door!

"Watch out—there's trouble coming!” King James I, who was set upon in 1437 by unhappy Scots, took refuge in a room whose door had no bar lock. One Catherine Douglas tried to keep the door closed with her arm, but the mob broke through and murdered the king. That the king might have shouted, “Catherine, bar the door,” is not too very different from the once-popular phrase. That the expression was brought to America by Anglo-Scottish settlers is equally likely, and for genera- tions rural folk would acknowledge a difficult situation with a shake of the head and “Katy, bar the door.”
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Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
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  • Katie bar the door
  • Katie, bar the door
  • Katie, bar the door!
  • bar
  • alkied
  • alkied (up)
  • alkied up
  • be in (one's) cups
  • blimped
  • bewottled
References in periodicals archive
Kris Boyson 'bored and critical of Katie Price and cracks were there from the start'
While she was at work, Katie would get endless messages from Shane.
They say more should have been done to help when it became obvious Katie was suffering from alopecia.
Another friend added: "Katie is skating on thin ice, everyone thinks she isn't taking this seriously at all and that it is not going to work."
A source said: "It's great news for Katie - and means she can really relax during her holiday."
On a flight to Glasgow last month, Katie spent the flight telling Kris she wants more babies.
At the time, according to the station, Pladl was living outside Richmond with his wife, Katie's mother, and their two children, girls who would have been Katie's sisters.
His wife also claimed that Steven Pladl would often sleep on the floor of Katie's room in the month before she moved out of their Richmond home.
Well-wishers flocked to give Katie their love last night, one of them writing: "Congratulations to all of you.
Katie has until tomorrow to come up with the cash or face having goods from her house seized and auctioned off.
Public relations consultant Claire Barber, of Alnwick, Northumberland, then offered to help raise funds for Katie's charitable foundation for PS550 a day.
Continuing the adventures of sixteen-yearold American Katie Green, sent to Japan to live with her aunt, Diane, after her mother's death, this second novel (there was a prequel released only as an ebook, just 69 pages) finds Katie drawn more deeply into the supernatural web begun in Ink (Harlequin Teen, 2013/VOYA February 2013).
The couple: Katie Hamilton (nee Williams), 28, a nursery nurse from Cwmbran, and Kevin Hamilton, 28, who works in a distribution centre, originally from Scotland.
THE memory of her grandad will be firmly in her heart when Katie Lunn takes on an epic sporting challenge.