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

I know it's all fake, but just the same, it makes my little heart go pit-a-pat.

From King Coal : a Novel by Sinclair, Upton

I can't understand then what on earth I saw in the man who made my heart go pit-a-pat.

From Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Anything like the sound of a rat Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!

From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

Then Carl felt his heart go pit-a-pat, and all the snow wreaths on the trees seemed to turn to bridal flowers.

From The Faery Tales of Weir by Sholl, Anna McClure