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

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

Then my heart really did begin to go pit-a-pat.

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

"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

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