lah-di-dah

  1. Adjective.  (British, pejorative) Of or from the upper class of society.
  2. Interjection.  (US) not a care in the world ''(used in a sing-song voice, for childhood rhymes)''.
  3. Interjection.  (US) Frequently heard in New Orleans, uttered by revelers in resorts of drink and music ''(used in a mildly pejorative sense, dismissing, for example, a man dressed in yellow bicycling Spandex with a silly walk, as Well, lah-di-dah. Also a term interjected when politicians waffle. Hmm. Sounds pretty lah-di-dah to me!)''.

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