ring-around-the-rosy,
- a variation of ring-around-the-rosey.
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The poems, which take the ring-around-the-rosy children’s game as a starting point for an exploration of male-female relationships, show Atwood’s early aptitude for the unflinching, visceral metaphor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If you ask me what I think," observed the old lady tartly, with a watchful eye on the children, who were playing ring-around-the-rosy in the yard.
From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
"Which is more than I can say I'm doing," Phil grumbled; "this ring-around-the-rosy business is played out, and I've just got to find some way to stop it."
From Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge by Boone, Silas K.
Larkin jockeyed for position, but in that moment when his eye was taken from the mad game of ring-around-the-rosy, McGee demonstrated that the skill was not equally placed.
From Aces Up by Clarke, Covington
