go pit-a-pat
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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
And they asked no questions, because it was all so dreadful mysterious and romantic, and made their little hearts go pit-a-pat to have such a poetic brother.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Where once she made our hearts go pit-a-pat, To-day, alas, they only pity Patti.
From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence
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
What is it that makes a man's heart go pit-a-pat when he is about to meet a European lady in mid-China?
From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John
