“Hey Diddle Diddle”

Cultural  

1. A nursery rhyme:

   Hey diddle diddle

   The cat and the fiddle,

   The cow jumped over the moon;

   The little dog laughed

   To see such sport,

   And the dish ran away with the spoon.

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Example Sentences

The float is called “Star Grazers” and is a twist on the “Hey Diddle Diddle” nursery rhyme, only the engineering cows are building jetpacks to jump over the moon.

From Los Angeles Times

Lucille Ball held a tune in ‘Hey Diddle Diddle,’ but is she an Ethel Merman?

From Los Angeles Times

Hey, diddle, diddle, the dish ran away with the spoon.

From Literature

She sang her whole repertoire of songs, which included “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”; “Hey, Diddle, Diddle”; “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider”; “The Alphabet Song”; and, of course “Patty-Cake, Patty-Cake.”

From Literature

Don’t forget to say “Hey, diddle, diddle” to the park’s furry occupants, which include three not-so-little Vietnamese potbellied pigs, two of Mary’s sheep, a floppy-eared Peter Rabbit and a friendly miniature donkey dubbed Eeyore.

From Washington Post