pocketa-pocketa
/ˌpɒkɪtəˈpɒkɪtə/(also pocketta-pocketta, pockety-pockety)
exclamation
Representing a series of rapidly repeated percussive sounds, such as those made by an internal-combustion engine.
noun
A series of rapidly repeated percussive sounds, such as those made by an internal-combustion engine, the wheels of a train, distant shooting, or the like.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in James Thurber (1894–1961), writer and cartoonist. Imitative.
- have someone's ear
- have someone's guts for garters
- have someone's name on it
- have someone's number
- have someone's number on it
- have someone/thing by the balls
- have someone/thing in mind
- have someone up
- have-something
- have something against someone
- have something at one's feet
- have something coming out of one's ears
- have something in common
- have something off (or down) pat
- have something on good authority
- have something on one's side (or something is on one's side)
- have something (or nothing) to show for
- have something out
- have something to burn
- have something to offer
- have something to one's credit
- have something to say for oneself
- have stars in one's eyes
- have steam coming out of one's ears
- have swallowed a dictionary