yada yada yada
exclamation (US informal)

- blah blah blah (= a phrase used to represent boring speech)

- boring or empty talk—often used interjectionally especially in recounting words regarded as too dull or predictable to be worth repeating

Cambridge Dictionary / Merriam-Webster

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PHRASE ORIGIN

The phrase "yada yada yada" likely evolved from the British term "yatter" or the similar-sounding Norwegian "jada, jada", both of which mean continuous or meaningless chatter and mimic the sound of idle talk.

First appearing in American culture in the 1940s-60s, it was notably used by Lenny Bruce in 1961. It became widely popular from the TV show "Seinfeld" in the late '90s, especially in an episode focused on the phrase.

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LESS TALK = MORE THOUGHT

- "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal)

- "Words, words, words." (William Shakespeare - Hamlet)

- "The more one speaks of oneself, the less one is oneself." (François de La Rochefoucauld)

- "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." (Plato)

- "That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them." (Dorothy Parker)

- "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." (Thomas Jefferson)

- "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." (Abraham Lincoln)

- "This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read." (Winston Churchill)

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SELECTED SYNONYMS

ad infinitum, ad nauseam, and all that jazz, and so forth, and so on, and what have you, and whatnot, babble, blabber, blabbering, blah blah blah, blather, blathering, blither, blithering, droning, endless repetition, gassing, gibble-gabble, hot air, jabber, jabbering, piffle, ratatat, talk talk talk, twaddle, twattle, vacuities, verbiage, waffling, YADA YADA YADA, yakkety-yak

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