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lah-di-dah
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lah-di-dah  (old-fashioned) also la-di-da (old-fashioned)
a woman who is lah-di-dah thinks she is better than other people and tries to speak as if she is from a high social class No one really liked her in the village. They all thought she was a bit lah-di-dah.


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But it does sharpen its edge on one cut, "Order Coffee," thanks to guest vocalist Emmylou Harris, who invests the lyric "Order coffee, drink it really slow / 'Cause after that I gotta go" with a world-weariness that the rest of the CD seems to la-di-da its way past.
``It's a bunch of la-di-da, mumbo jumbo, educationspeak,'' said board member David Tokofsky.
 
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