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When they're playing a chasing game (cluiche tóraíochta) what do you call the place where you are 'safe' or 'home', and what do you say when you get there ? In English it's flixie and you cross your fingers, though this probably varies from playground to playground. In French it's pouce/thumb.
Interesting. I've never heard of "flixie" or crossing one's fingers for that reason in North America. The safe place is usually just called "home". Here , crossing one's fingers is done for luck, or (if done in a hidden way) theoretically excuses someone who is telling a "fib" (a small untruth).
Some of the calls in our children's games are German in origin, having come from the many German-speaking immigrants (nearly one-third of Americans have at least some German ancestry), although many people even in North America are not aware of that. For example, when a chasing game (which we usually call "tag") is over, a common call is some variation on "olly-olly oxen free" or "olly-olly in come free", meaning that it's safe for everyone to come home. Few people are aware that those expressions come from the German "alle, alle auch sind frei" or "alle,alle [r]ein komm' frei".