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Significados de rat-a-tat-tat en inglés

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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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Examples for "rat-tat"
Examples for "rat-tat"
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At the rat-tat-tat of the knocker her heart flew into her mouth.
To-morrow
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The voices broke off, and a rat-tat sounded on the front door.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
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A thundering rat-tat-tat at the hall door brought Jones to his feet.
The Man Who Lost Himself
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Here Mrs. Butler souded a loud rat-tat on the Bells' hall door.
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
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In the same moment there sounded again a rat-tat at the outer door.
The Whirlpool
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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
Uso de rat-a-tat-tat en inglés
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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 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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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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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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It was not quite a samba beat: more rat-a-tat-tat, not dissimilar to the rhythm of his uncomplicated shot-making.
The Guardian
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Murray. It was not quite a samba beat: more rat-a-tat-tat, not dissimilar to the rhythm of his uncomplicated shot-making.
The Guardian
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At the heart of "Better Off Ted's" comedic genius is its rat-a-tat-tat dialogue that sounds real, not forced.
Reuters
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The moment she recognized her visitor, she opened the door to him, her heart doing a crazy little rat-a-tat-tat number.
Silent killer
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In the middle of January there is a quiet tap on the door of my privy chamber, a little rat-a-tat-tat that is George's knock.
The Kingmaker’s Daughter
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His arms and his fists were like those old ack-ack guns, rat-a-tat-tat, slamming back and forth, blood flying everywheres, and he just kept charging.
Mortal Allies
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