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pat-a-cake

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[pat-a-cake] {n.}

A clapping game that keeps time to a nursery rhyme.

* /Mother played pat-a-cake with the baby./

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	time ⁵⁴⁹ {n.} ⁹¹²

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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