“Hey Diddle Diddle”

Cultural

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.

Example Sentences

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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 • Dec. 31, 2021

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