In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1962 novel Mother Night, the phrase’s use among children is referenced, as the narrator desires to hear an analogous message to come out of hiding.At the very end of Peter, Paul and Mary's recording of " It's Raining", they speak the more straightforward version of the phrase: "All-ee, all-ee in free.".Oxenfree is a 2016 videogame by Night School Studio.
OLY OLY OXEN FREE
Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978) is a film starring Katharine Hepburn,.In Lost in Space, season 3 episode 4 "Hunter's Moon" the Robot calls out "Olly Olly Oxen Free" when it is searching for Will Robinson.Various songs are named "Olly olly oxen free", or a variant thereof, including songs by: the Ted Weems orchestra (sung by a young Perry Como) Terry Scott Taylor, on his 2004 album Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood the metalcore band Sworn In, on their 2015 album The Lovers/The Devil and Amanda Palmer, on her 2012 album Theatre Is Evil.Another variant is "Ollie Ollie in come free." In literature and the arts
"Ollyoxalls" is one such variant, said to be used in Portsmouth, England. Others speculate the phrase may be a corruption of a hypothetical and ungrammatical German phrase alle, alle, auch sind frei (all, all, also are free). The Dictionary of American Regional English says the phrase may be derived from all ye, all ye outs in free, all the outs in free, or possibly ”calling all the outs in free” in other words, all who are out may come in without penalty. Word sleuths are fairly certain that the 'oxen' (or 'octen') in the call is simply a childish corruption of 'all in.' The rest remains a mystery." From Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997)." Olly olly oxen free" is a catchphrase or truce term used in children's games such as hide and seek, capture the flag, and kick the can to indicate that players who are hiding can come out into the open without losing the game that the position of the sides in a game has changed (as in which side is on the field or which side is at bat or "up" in baseball or kickball) or, alternatively, that the game is entirely over. OLLY, OLLY OXEN FREE - "If you've ever wondered about the origins of this chant - used to call in all players at the end of a game of hide-and-seek - be advised that the experts only have a partial answer to your lifelong puzzlement. : You can check the archives to find many references to this phrase.įor more discussion, search the archives under "oxen."
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My husband says the full verse is, "Olly, olly oxen free if you don't come now, you'll be I-T!" : : My guess? All ye, all ye, come in free, which became mangled while passing from one kid to another: olly, olly oxen free. No, that's what you say every time, Nick explained. Shawn Fucile, 8, figured 10 year-old Zach Hedrick made it up. : : "After the Olly, Olly cry went up in Orem the other night, I asked a few kids where it came from. One game player guessed it had something to do with oxen, while another was sure it had Olde English roots. But where did this nonsensical phrase come from? : : "It is used by kids everywhere to signal it is safe to emerge during Hide-and-Seek games.
: : I liked this explanation by Brooke Adams, in the Salt Lake City Tribune on 19 July 2004 In Reply to: Olly, Olly Oxen Free posted by Bob on November 03, 2005
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