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The company, Olialia (pronounced ooh-la-la), wants its vacation resort to have only blond staff.
Olialia, Lithuanian Company, Plans Blonds-Only Vacation Island In The Maldives The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I think they must have thought they were being very ooh-la-la along the lines of Pret - but maybe there were too many dog owners/country folk who recognised the double-entendre and didn't fancy abite after that!
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The company, Olialia (pronounced ooh-la-la), wants its vacation resort to have only blond staff.
Olialia, Lithuanian Company, Plans Blonds-Only Vacation Island In The Maldives AOL Travel News 2010
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Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug:
Archive 2009-03-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug:
Giving Up Roger Sutton 2009
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The company, Olialia (pronounced ooh-la-la), wants its vacation resort to have only blond staff.
Olialia, Lithuanian Company, Plans Blonds-Only Vacation Island In The Maldives AOL Travel News 2010
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This despite the fact that the restaurant's name misspelled "ooh-la-la" and the eatery, trying to be trendy, sported concrete floors and walls splotched with paint.
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Trendy name (an attempt at "ooh-la-la") and design (concrete floors and paint-splotched walls), but classic food.
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From 1933 to 1943, she appeared in dozens of quickly made second features, often cast as what were termed "good-time girls", as distinct from good girls, sometimes with invented ooh-la-la French names.
Grace Bradley obituary Ronald Bergan 2010
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"We're not a five-star luxury hotel or seven-star-something property dispensing our ooh-la-la drinks," said Ms. Kumar.
After Hours: Delhi 2010
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