go pit-a-pat
Example Sentences
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Tough medicine, as she described it, and “stabilization” — which is “kind of my theme” — won’t make a great many hearts go pit-a-pat.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
When she had made our hearts go pit-a-pat, and brought the tears into our eyes, she would give us comic songs--the very latest.
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Marsh, Richard
"And your little heart used to go pit-a-pat, so that you could hardly count the change?"
From King Coal : a Novel by Sinclair, Upton
And he tossed his horned head and pawed the ground with his great hoofs in a way that made Sonny Boy’s heart go pit-a-pat.
From Sonny Boy by Swett, Sophie Miriam
"Only a scraping of shoes on the mat Anything like the sound of a rat Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!"
From Holiday Stories for Young People by Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth
