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Examples
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Oh lally lally lally what will I do without you:’ - (
the-moo Diary Entry the-moo 2005
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The entire first floor, beams, flooring, everything, has sagged downward and is being held up by one rusty Victorian lally column.
The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010
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I did have one minor hiccough where the tension decided to go do-lally for no particular reason (i.e. wasn't at a bobbin change, etc) but I did catch it before I'd sewed too much, and of course, when the tension goes odd, it's often easy to unpick as one of the threads is just lying there with big loops around it ...
One Hawaiian Down... katelnorth 2008
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You'll find that the lyrics have no "oo de lally", but it's a nice version anyway.
Robin Hood's "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 14 Languages - Waxy.org 2009
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[I was going to post a picture of them, but blogger just won't do it without making the text all doo-lally, so I'll just have to put a link here instead ...]
Archive 2007-03-01 katelnorth 2007
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I have never seen Disney's "Robin Hood," so haven't a clue about "Oo de lally."
Robin Hood's "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 14 Languages - Waxy.org 2009
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Oh no lally, there you go again, ruining the "all Bush/GOP all evil all the time" narrative.
Condoleezza Rice: I Won't Tell Hillary What To Do As Sec Of State 2009
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[I was going to post a picture of them, but blogger just won't do it without making the text all doo-lally, so I'll just have to put a link here instead ...]
Sewn but not blogged... katelnorth 2007
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The fact that the defamation laws in England and Wales are completely doo-lally and stiffle free speech is sadly irrelevant in this case.
BCA v Singh: An Astonishingly Illiberal Ruling Jack of Kent 2009
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I always thought he looked like a Harry Enfield caricature of a slightly doo-lally Tory MP who was three stops short of Dagenham (i.e. Barking).
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