Ring a Ring o' Roses

ring-a-ring o' roses — 7 [ˌrɪŋ ə rɪŋ ə ˈrəʊzɪz] [ˌrɪŋ ə rɪŋ ə ˈroʊzɪz] (BrE) (NAmE ˌring around the ˈrosy ; ) noun …   Useful english dictionary

Ring a ring o' roses — Ring a ring o ros|es BrE Ring around the rosy AmE a children s singing game in which the children join hands and dance round in a circle singing: Ring a ring o roses/A pocket full of posies/A tishoo! A tishoo!/We all fall down. People believe it… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

Ring a Ring o' Roses — Infobox Standard title=Ring a Ring o Roses comment= image size= caption=Musical variations of Ring a Ring o Roses , Alice Gomme, 1898. [Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland , p. 108.] writer= composer=Traditional… …   Wikipedia

Ring a Ring o’ Roses — a traditional children’s song and game in which the players join hands and dance in a circle singing, then pretend to sneeze, and fall down on the last line. The words are: Ring a ring o’ roses, A pocket full of posies, A tishoo! A tishoo! We all …   Universalium

Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses —    Children s singing game, known throughout the English speaking world, and with many continental analogues. Nowadays, the game tends to be one of the first taught to children by adults, rather than being learnt from other children, and is… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

ring-a-ring o' roses — 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 …   English new terms dictionary

ring around the rosy — ring a ring o roses 7 [ˌrɪŋ ə rɪŋ ə ˈrəʊzɪz] [ˌrɪŋ ə rɪŋ ə ˈroʊzɪz] (BrE) (NAmE ˌring around the ˈrosy ; ) …   Useful english dictionary

Ring-around-the-rosy — Ring a|round the ros|y →↑ring a ring o roses …   Dictionary of contemporary English

Ring frei (сингл) — «Ring frei» Сингл …   Википедия

ring aring of roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down — Meaning Verse from a nursery rhyme. Origin From the playground rhyme. Often reported as referring to the Black Death (the bubonic plague in mediaeval Europe). The plausible sounding theory has it that the ring is the ring or sores around the… …   Meaning and origin of phrases

The Roses of Eyam — is a historical drama by Don Taylor, largely based on the events that happened in the Plague Village of Eyam, Derbyshire, between September 1665 and December 1666 [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths legends/england/derby/article 5.shtml… …   Wikipedia