lah-de-dah

In the beginning it's all briskets and lah-de-dah and ain't life grand; but soon enough real life starts, right?

Life's Disorder Takes Center Stage in Comedy, 'Barney's Version' 2011

In the beginning it's all briskets and lah-de-dah and ain't life grand; but soon enough real life starts, right?

Life's Disorder Takes Center Stage in Comedy, 'Barney's Version' 2011

In the beginning it's all briskets and lah-de-dah and ain't life grand; but soon enough real life starts, right?

Life's Disorder Takes Center Stage in Comedy, 'Barney's Version' 2011

The jump-off to 2001 and beyond, it's attitude sneering and bland, with a lah-de-dah shrug at the blood on the ground spilled by those who don't make it.

Dry Rot 2010

Perhaps it's because prime minister David Cameron is around the same age as me – or possibly because the armed forces, or at least the army, are still largely run by lah-de-dah Ruperts like him – that he seems so nostalgic for this vanished old world.

A backwards salute to recruitment films Mark Simpson 2010

They also shared an absolute mastery of the blase rebellion that comes with a lah-de-dah shrug at the world's travails and all the efforts of keepers to keep them corralled.

Perdition 2010

I think Phyllis actually taught 'lah-de-dah' to Diane Keaton a few years later.

Elsie's World 2009

"We'll show you somethin ', Mister lah-de-dah Tatenor!"

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

"If I liked him I'd go an 'stand in the street an' listen to him, not take up the room of them as has a hall hired for 'em by the _best_ man, who has lived among us, and not some city lah-de-dah married to a hussy off the stage, an 'who had women who might be any character goin' round speakin 'for him," she tiraded, and turning to me aggressively demanded --

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

And a penny paper collar round his throat, lah-de-dah!

The Measure of a Man Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875