Usage of "rat-a-tat" | TermGallery

espanyol

A series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)

Ús de rat-a-tat en anglès

The sound, not unlike the rat-a-tat-tat of parade drums, heralded Hickock's arrival. 
 In Cold Blood 

I drummed my fingers rat-a-tat-tat on the wagon wheel place mat. 
 Further adventures 

The B-movie genre's rat-a-tat dialogue sounded like sure box office. 
 Reuters 

And not just because of the at-first-impenetrable, hard-boiled, rat-a-tat dialogue and dizzying plot twists. 
 The Guardian 

To a child's ears the rat-a-tat of laminated linen against spokes was engine noise. 
 Wired 

His involvement in the rat-a-tat of passes that pre-empted Maxi Rodríguez's goal was almost inevitable. 
 The Guardian 

The crack of Kalashnikov fire and the rat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun fill the air. 
 The Irish Times 

They all need to supply the crackling rat-a-tat-tat dialogue you might find in a Capote novel. 
 News.com.au 

Concentration on what is being said is further stymied by the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of the lines. 
 Reuters 

The rat-a-tat-tat of the drums calls them forward. 
 Getting old is tres dangereux 

They got past Thurles with a couple of rat-a-tat points in the last three minutes of extra-time. 
 The Irish Times 

Air raid sirens began howling, then the litany of rat-a-tat-tat from anti-aircraft artillery for half an hour. 
 The Irish Times 

Juventus were about to be pierced by the rat-a-tat-tat of three more goals in breathtakingly quick succession. 
 The Guardian 

Three gasping coughs in rapid succession, rat-a-tat-tat. 
 Lit: a memoir 

Captain Murphy grinned, impressed at the rat-a-tat. 
 Secret of the seventh son 

Merrill Grant will lead them to the chuppah, at the music cue of a rat-a-tat-tat on the drums. 
 Getting old is tres dangereux 

Translations for rat-a-tat

espanyol

Significats de rat-a-tat en anglès