la-la land

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of La-La Land.

   Chloe found the whole subject so dreary and dull that her imagination would float away into la-la land whenever the subject came up.

   2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

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1. uncountableAn imaginary place.

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   They use our phones to surveil us and, at the same time, digitally manufacture a MAGA La La Land, a world where Trump’s policies are sensible, prices are lower, immigrants—not the accumulation of wealth among the one percent—are the reason people feel so economically strained, and ICE isn’t killing people.

   2026 January 30, Emily Carmichael, “Why ICE Treats Phones Like a Deadly Threat”, in Current Affairs

2. uncountableA state of mind of being out of touch with reality.

   Don't worry, boss: the guards are in La-La Land. They won't be up for many hours.

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   Oh, don't mind him: he's usually up in La-La Land, with all his silly ideas and whatnot.

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1. USderogatoryfigurativelyhumorousslangLos Angeles, California (or Hollywood).

   ... back to her new home in Calabassas, near Los Angeles. Her years in Phoenix, where she started her own zoo, ended in divorce, "and now I'm back in La La Land," […]

   1958, TV Guide, volume 35, numbers 36–39

2. CanadaslangBritish Columbia.