In the games of "hide and seek", "tag" or "kick the can": Where does the chant "olly olly oxen freeeee" originate, and what practice brought it into use?
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if you go to wikipedia.com it explains everything, "The exact origin of the phrase is unknown, but etymologists suspect it is a childish corruption of the German "Alle, alle auch sind frei!", (literally, "Everyone, everyone also is free!"), which is purported to have been a cruel joke often played upon Holocaust victims by their jailers. At any particular time, a prisoner might be released, immediately upon which the phrase would be shouted. Any other prisoners who also left would be killed further down the road by Nazi soldiers." That's directly from the site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olly_olly_oxen_free
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