kiss-in-the-ring

Since I was quite small, they have never even let me talk to girls - at home I was not even allowed to play with my little cousins at kiss-in-the-ring, or anything!

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

At holiday gatherings he was the life and soul of the body, 'shocking two prim maiden teachers by starting kiss-in-the-ring', and surprising his most vigorous helpers by his energy and decision.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

Never before have I seen rats in such quantities; they flowed unchidden all over the dug-out, rummaged in the cupboards, played kiss-in-the-ring in the shadows, and sang and brawled behind the old oak panelling until you could barely hear yourself shout.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 Various

When tired with swinging, we started a game of kiss-in-the-ring, in which all heartily joined, except a few languid, swellish-looking fellows who thought it beneath their dignity, and begged to be excused, saying the game was 'too vulgar.'

Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark Charles Bruce

I told him a good kiss-in-the-ring club was about his form.

The Gold Bat 1928

I told him a good kiss-in-the-ring club was about his form.

The Gold Bat 1928

I told him a good kiss-in-the-ring club was about his form.

The Gold Bat 1928

Inside of a week I'll be playing kiss-in-the-ring with him.

Piccadilly Jim 1928

"Well, you get 'em to play kiss-in-the-ring with you, and you'll find out how frisky they can be!"

In Brief Authority F. Anstey 1895

'When we have been a morris-dancing, or having a Saturday night game of "kiss-in-the-ring," or

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894