How To Use La-di-da In A Sentence
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He is at once hugely affable and yet faintly sulky, the dogged, world-weary NCO in some ancient sitcom, say, wearily humouring the la-di-da adjutant in the knowledge that everything will soon go badly wrong.
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What, cough syrup and Lysol-in-a-cup not good enough for you fancypants, la-di-da aristocrats?
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I've never seen a drug culture that was so la-di-da, so clean shaven!
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I raised my eyebrows, but I may as well have whistled, or said, “Well, la-di-da.”
The Bird House
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The la-di-da world of haute cuisine becomes rapidly less genteel during truffle season, a period marked by the hysterical hunting, trading, smuggling and devouring of this elusive subterranean fungal delicacy.
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Does it ever make you cry to think of us labouring away for so little reward, while you shamelessly enjoy the fruits of our work, sitting in your comfy chair, with your la-di-da central heating and your bottomless bag of Tostitos?
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When you say design, some folks conger up images of la-di-da characters with long silk scarves flurrying about pointing out how atrocious or marvelous everything looks.
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‘Dance Base itself is full of classes and la-di-da stuff, but we can't platform professional work, therefore I thought we should collaborate,’ says Deyes.
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I wouldn't trust them in spite of all their la-di-da manners.
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No one likes a la-di-da smartypants unless he's a Perrier Award nominee and his name is Chris Addison.
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Even though St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys and Flatliners and Falling Down and The Client had all been successful - and I know I'm saying that in a very la-di-da, cavalier sort of way - they didn't cost money.
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The guy seems to care so little about his work here that he fails to believably: type on a keyboard (re: his character is a professional writer), urgently ride a bicycle in a downpour (again, he does this with inexplicable la-di-da slowness), and talk at a GPS with any semblance of a person who is frustrated.
Movie Review: Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is Terrible (This Review Includes an Exclusive Note from Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghost) | /Film
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The other presentation is on Saturday, March 9, at 3: 30 p.m. It's hosted by École Polytechnique's Sylvain Martel (who's all la-di-da now that he's in with those cool kids at MIT), and it concerns nanobots.
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Up the hill to the la-di-da bistros of the Palace: atleastit's downhill at the end ofthe night.
Let's Move To: Anerley, south-east London
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No one must be different from himself in voice, clothes, manners, recreations, choice of food: Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation.
Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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No one must be different from himself in voice, clothes, manners, recreations, choice of food: Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation.
Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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Here, Keaton's la-di-da flibbertigibbet dissolved all of her neurotic mannerisms and simply stood still, gently and lovingly warbling what became the film's essence.
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They think they're way too expensive and la-di-da for a kid to have.
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The entire book is announced by her as an attack upon her own image as ‘Miss Chastity Belt’, ‘America's la-di-da happy virgin’.
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Ever la-di-da shitass in this town will be able to spit on us if we take charity!
Matchless Valour
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The polling place serves both the somewhat more la-di-da residents of the Hills and the somewhat more working - and middle-class Armenian and Hispanic neighborhoods of the flats.
Tell Us Your Voting Stories
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It felt too la-di-da ladylike for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I've had enough of la-di-da Lan, I head to a family-run restaurant named Liu Zhai Shi Fu, located in a hutong behind The National Museum of Art. I suggest sitting in the enclosed courtyard where silk vines hang overhead.
Susan Orlins: Worrywart's 8 Stress-Reducing Things to Do in Beijing
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Thanks La-Di-Da for pointing out the problems with healthism I don’t like the term, but think it’s an important concept.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore
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I did see something when I was researching my book at the Warner Brothers - at the archives, and the Marine Corps was really thrilled about its portrayal, because Hollywood had a tendency to get la-di-da and all that nonsense.
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I was everything he didn't like - a woman, with a la-di-da accent, who came from the south, who'd been Oxbridge-educated, and hired on the milk round.
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‘Film stock is so precious in these times’, the critic complained, ‘yet Hiroshi Shimizu still comes up with such la-di-da stuff.’
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After a few more attempts at conversation, he got angry and started muttering ‘Posh Whalley Range lady… la-di-da Moss Side lady’.
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There is no such thing as society," Augusto Pinochet's close friend, Margaret Thatcher, once intoned in her plummiest la-di-dah accent.
Archive 2006-06-01
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When you say design, some folks conjure up images of la-di-da characters with long silk scarves flurrying about pointing out how atrocious or marvelous everything looks.
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I'm awful curious to hear how Deputy Joe's going to prove any of this la-di-da.
Static
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True, I wasn't poor, but I was more street and they were all la-di-da.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, Keaton's la-di-da flibbertigibbet dissolved all of her neurotic mannerisms and simply stood still, gently and lovingly warbling what became the film's essence.