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Significats de rat-a-tat en anglès

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

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Ús de rat-a-tat en anglès
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The sound, not unlike the rat-a-tat-tat of parade drums, heralded Hickock's arrival.
In Cold Blood
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I drummed my fingers rat-a-tat-tat on the wagon wheel place mat.
Further adventures
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The B-movie genre's rat-a-tat dialogue sounded like sure box office.
Reuters
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And not just because of the at-first-impenetrable, hard-boiled, rat-a-tat dialogue and dizzying plot twists.
The Guardian
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To a child's ears the rat-a-tat of laminated linen against spokes was engine noise.
Wired
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His involvement in the rat-a-tat of passes that pre-empted Maxi Rodríguez's goal was almost inevitable.
The Guardian
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The crack of Kalashnikov fire and the rat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun fill the air.
The Irish Times
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They all need to supply the crackling rat-a-tat-tat dialogue you might find in a Capote novel.
News.com.au
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Concentration on what is being said is further stymied by the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of the lines.
Reuters
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The rat-a-tat-tat of the drums calls them forward.
Getting old is tres dangereux
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They got past Thurles with a couple of rat-a-tat points in the last three minutes of extra-time.
The Irish Times
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Air raid sirens began howling, then the litany of rat-a-tat-tat from anti-aircraft artillery for half an hour.
The Irish Times
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Juventus were about to be pierced by the rat-a-tat-tat of three more goals in breathtakingly quick succession.
The Guardian
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Three gasping coughs in rapid succession, rat-a-tat-tat.
Lit: a memoir
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Captain Murphy grinned, impressed at the rat-a-tat.
Secret of the seventh son
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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
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