Etymology

lah-di-dah

Today it means: Of or from the upper class of society. Full definition →

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The story

c. 1880s, with a comeback in the 1980s due to its use in Annie Hall (1977) by Woody Allen, although in a different context, spoken by the actress Diane Keaton.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.