| Olivenib | Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 13:24 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| La-di-da affectedly refined, especially in speech originally slang, either an imitation of affected speech or from 'lard' or 'lardy', 18th century foppish pronunciation of 'lord' as a mild oath. The word gained more general currency through a popular and mocking music-hall song of 1880, 'he wears a penny flower in his coat, la-di-da!'. It is now informal rather than slang, and applied to behaviour as well as speech.
And here's another fact!
Backroom boys researchers, scientists, etc. This expression was coined by lord beaverbrook, then british minister for aircraft production, in a speech in honour of the 'unsung heroes' of the war effort, made on march 24, 1941: 'to whom must praise be given? I will tell you. It is the boys in the back room. They do not sit in the limelight but they are the men who do the work.'
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