hickory dickory dock
Mouse climbed up
Hickory dickory dock is the opening line of a traditional English nursery rhyme about a mouse running up a clock.
The nonsense phrase has no independent meaning but is instantly recognizable, often invoked to suggest childish singsong or to mark time passing: Hickory dickory dock, the meeting's about to start.
- nursery rhymeTraditional poem for young children
- nurseryRoom for infants
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- clockDevice displaying time
- mouseSmall gnawing mammal
ran up · tick · tock · grandfather · grandfather clock · pendulum · chime · strike · one · clock tower · run · children · sing · melody · verse · lullaby · scurry · tail
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register and tone
hickory dickory dockmemento mori
Artistic death reminder
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