lah-dee-dah

Oh, lah-dee-dah, they must have careers that pay them so much money.

OMG, NEW SEX AND THE CITY PICTURES! 2008

I see you when you're 70 or even 80 years old and wantin' to re-live some pleasant memories so you pick your lah-dee-dah scrap le book off the shelf.

"I, seriously, was like the Lindsay Lohan of scrapbooking." Ann Althouse 2008

Rob's arguments for the ban were cogent and anguished over; it wasn't something he did lightly with a lah-dee-dah attitude.

To Ban or Not to Ban? A Lesson Taken From J-101 Class 2007

It seemed to smack of a very cavalier, lah-dee-dah attitude toward their situation.

The Tragedy of Sacrificing Their Children's Childhood for Bush's War 2007

From the article: "Grey Gardens" also developed a following among people, gay men especially, who responded both to the implicit campiness of the film — two faded old biddies, preening and bickering and singing Cole Porter tunes in lah-dee-dah accents — and to the women's eccentricity, originality and uncompromising independence.

Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006

Then there's "Lah-dee-dah, lah-dee-dah" -- which has always bugged me, because Annie Hall doesn't use it in the sense I've always heard it used in real life -- to mean "showily glamorous."

More about those movie quotes. Ann Althouse 2005

Go back to my lah-dee-dah apartment, she thought, as she yanked off her coat and threw it over the bannister.

Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set Mary Higgins Clark 2000

It has been a mostly lah-dee-dah rook season for the tall reddish-head, usurper of Jonas Gustavsson's mojo as Toronto masked man of the now-and-future.

Thestar.com - Home Page Rosie DiManno 2011