‘Our hearts went pitapat when we received the news that the inventors were all set to snap up the million-dollar prize.’
‘Consequently, I'm doubly grateful for a CD of Rosner's orchestral music, and the designation ‘Volume 1 ‘makes my heart go pit-a-pat.’’
‘By way of illustration, he invited his readers to ‘fancy Mr. Neville Chamberlain having twenty-five feet of intestines and a heart going pit-a-pat all the time.’’
‘Working in minuscule, invisible circles, you clenched your teeth while your poor little heart went pit-a-pat?’