lah-di-dah
Britishadjective
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Now, let’s catch up with what’s happening with the Republican administration in the US, lah-di-dah, here we are and – um.
From The Guardian
It’s part of Dame Maggie’s genius that she can take a role in which she falls so low and yet play substantially the same character as when she was performing someone lah-di-dah.
From The Guardian
One connection between sport and fashion writing is that they come with very lazy gender assumptions: sportsing for the boys and lah-di-dah clothes for the gals.
From The Guardian
He said people needed to adopt a "cold-hearted" view of what the intelligence services did rather than what he referred to as a "lah-di-dah airy-fairy" view.
From Reuters
Battered potatoes a lah-di-dah delicacy.
From The Guardian
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