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

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

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

Wit, wisdom, and energy may go pit-a-pat "at the double" on lower levels, but great soulèdness and probity only come to their perfection in a steadier region.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis

"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