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After last year’s “getting some soy sauce” and “doing push-ups” Web users in China have found a new catchphrase for 2009: “playing hidden cat” or what the English-speaking world calls “hide and seek.” (In Chinese “playing hidden cat” is 躲猫猫 pronounced “duo maomao.”) After last year's "getting some say" and "doing push ups" web users in China have found a new catchphrase for 2009: "playing hidden cat" or what the English speaking world calls "hide and seek." 继去年风靡一时的“打酱油”和“俯卧撑”之后，步入2009年的中国网民又发现了新的流行词“躲猫猫”。 After last year's popular "soy sauce" and "push ups", Chinese netizens in 2009 found a new popular word "hide and seek". The story behind this new phrase comes from Jinning in southwest China’s Yunnan province where a 24-year-old prisoner died from a severe brain injury four days after being sent to the hospital. Local police said the brain injury occurred when the prisoner “bumped into a wall after being kicked by another prisoner while playing hidden cat.” (Report in Chinese.) The story behind this new phrase comes from Jinning in southwest China’s Yunnan province where a 24-year-old prisoner died from a severe brain injury four days after being sent to the hospital. Local police said the brain injury occurred when the prisoner “bumped into a wall after being kicked by another prisoner while playing hidden cat.”(Report in Chinese.) | 
