ring-a-ring o' roses
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ring-a-ring o' roses/rɪŋərɪŋəˈrəʊzɪz/
▶noun a children's singing game in which players hold hands and dance in a circle, falling down at the end of the song.
– origin said to refer to the inflamed (‘rose-coloured’) ring of buboes, symptomatic of the plague.
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