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
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
"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 Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Anything like the sound of a rat Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!
From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
And how their hearts go pit-a-pat, and look for it!
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb by Francis Beaumont
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