'olly olly oxen free' in Congress

[Herb Stahlke]

A Huff Post story at

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/indefinite-detention-americans_n_3437923.html?ref=topbar

quotes a congressman as follows:

"There was a phrase in that game called 'olly olly oxen free' -- meant you
could come out, you were safe, you no longer had to hide," Cotton argued.

I've never heard "hide 'n' seek" called that, but the phrase is now in the
Congressional Record.

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