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After a brief chat and a few moments of focused rat-a-tat-tat, they leave with a piece of personalized art.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2021

Crosby and Hope reportedly ad-libbed much of the rat-a-tat-tat banter, and the lovely Lamour makes the most of her catch-all “exotic woman” roles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2018

Cuthbert’s time on “Happy Endings” serves her well enough, and Zano amiably keeps up his end of the garden variety rat-a-tat-tat dialogue.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2015

The show is a rat-a-tat-tat series of video clips and jokes that are obscene, shocking, even scatological.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2010

And without a beat or a signal we went from rat-a-tat-tat to the Isley Brothers’ song “It’s Your Thing.”

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia