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单词 pat-a-cake
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Definition of pat-a-cake in English:

pat-a-cake

noun
mass noun
  • A children's game in which participants gently clap their hands in time to the words of a rhyme.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She's also naïve and curious, and praeternaturally sensitive - her epiphanies are simple, involving scarlet gloves or rose-tinted glasses, playing pat-a-cake quietly to herself or imagining conversations in front of the mirror.
    • Hence the unravelling of what should have developed as a pat-a-cake Q & A session into a short, sharp masterclass in discourtesy.
    • The fact is, children love repetition of good things, from pat-a-cake games to stories and songs.
    • From early spring to late fall, he will leave his apartment, limp across the street and coax whoever is willing to play patty-cake with him until the bus arrives.
    • Clapping hands to the pat-a-cake rhyme gives your baby practice in coordinating actions with words.
    • Who can remain sane watching a load of professional Bavarians performing their version of ‘Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker's man’?
    • From peek-a-boo to chess, from pat-a-cake to baseball, games occupy a central role in the lives of most children from infancy to adolescence.
    • We laughed as classmates screwed up patty-cake and made clowns of themselves.
    • The four began seated on wooden boxes facing each other and started what looked like a super-advanced game of pat-a-cake.
    • Ashley looks like she had a really bad game of patty-cake.
    • The infant guidelines involve a parent or caregiver planning physical activity with a variety of baby games, such as peekaboo and pat-a-cake, and sessions in which the child is held, rocked, and carried to new environments.
    • It seems that White has led his men even further away from the silly pat-a-cake days when South Africa shared New Zealand's ‘vision ‘of candyfloss rugby, as paraded in the Super 12.’
    • Evidently, the girls didn't pay much attention, since they are shown sleeping and playing patty-cake instead.
    • Hip-hip hurray - by the time he's a one-year old, your baby will be able to clap his hands together, so you can play games such pat-a-cake or just clap along to music.
 
 
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