pat-a-cake

He was happy to play pat-a-cake during a laughable easy interview with Jeremy Paxman the other day, safe in the knowledge that Paxo knows little of his mayoralty and that Paxo, a friend of Boris's sister, refused to help Purnell with the biography.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

After a cursory news bulletin, in which the public health implications of the "obesity epidemic" were illustrated by footage of a woman with a fat behind walking down a street, they showed a funny clip of two cats playing pat-a-cake, a useful public service for anyone not among the 11,468,922 people who have already viewed the sequence on YouTube.

André Villas-Boas masters art of post-match put down 2011

A roundhouse right from Haye commenced the ninth round but after this, the pat-a-cake fists of each man resumed.

David Haye loses big fight to Wladimir Klitschko but blames broken toe 2011

He will have found out more about the likes of the Saints openside Tom Wood, who was tirelessly brave in a losing cause, and the Leicester locks Louis Deacon and George Skivington than in a season of pat-a-cake fixtures.

Leicester 27-16 Northampton | Premiership match report 2011

He's been too busy hugging, bowing and playing pat-a-cake with our enemies to put on a big show for the rest of the world.

Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war 2009

A roundhouse right from Haye commenced the ninth round but after this, the pat-a-cake fists of each man resumed.

David Haye loses big fight to Wladimir Klitschko but blames broken toe 2011

So I chip away on that notion, and on the desirability of fiscal probity, a notion to which we both subscribe, waiting for him to figure out the second half of the problem: the Democrat-controlled legislature that plays pat-a-cake with the public sector unions.

Robin of Berkeley on liberal vs. leftist Jews and Obama 2010

I want to be there for bedtimes, games of pat-a-cake (and later, catch), and school plays.

I will not be a foregone conclusion. ScienceWoman 2007

I want to be there for bedtimes, games of pat-a-cake (and later, catch), and school plays.

Archive 2007-07-01 ScienceWoman 2007

How do you suppose Tony Blair feels on hearing the news that Peter Mandelson and Gordon Brown have played pat-a-cake pat-a-cake make up men?

Tony Blair 2009