Daily life
pat your pockets
check your pockets by touch
To pat your pockets means to touch them quickly to check what is inside.
Hear it in real life
Where's your phone?
Hang on, I'm patting my pockets to find it.
I patted my pockets and realised I had left my keys at home.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I checked my pockets by patting on them.
Say: I checked my pockets by patting them.
With pat meaning touch quickly, use a direct object without “on.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
pat your pockets; patted his pockets
Your turn: say it out loud
I patted my pockets and realised I had left my keys at home.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
pat your pockets
check your pockets by touch
“I patted my pockets and realised I had left my keys at home.”
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