The House that Jack Built
/ðə ˌhaʊs ðət ˈdʒæk bɪlt/
/ðə ˌhaʊs ðət ˈdʒæk bɪlt/
- a traditional nursery rhyme in which there are lots of verses, each one adding an extra line to the one before. It begins like this: “This is the house that Jack built.This is the maltThat lay in the house that Jack built.This is the rat,That ate the maltThat lay in the house that Jack built.”