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Meaning

Used to skip over boring, predictable, or irrelevant details. You use it when you want to get to the main point without wasting time on the fluff.

Dismissive, funny

Used in a sentence

  • He went on about his long commute, yada yada yada, and finally he arrived.
  • I did the laundry, did the dishes, yada yada yada, and went to bed.
  • She talked about her cat's diet, yada yada yada, and then finally got to the news.

The backstory

This is famously linked to the show Seinfeld in the 1990s, though it likely existed in Yiddish-inflected slang for much longer as a version of blah blah blah.

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