English
Etymology
Triplication of blah.
Pronunciation
Interjection
blah blah blah
- A put-down to silence someone who would otherwise not stop talking.
Oh blah blah blah. Just be quiet!
- A stand-in for trivial, obvious, or boring content.
I went to go out, but couldn't find my keys; blah blah blah, my toddler had hidden them in his snow boots.
Synonyms
Translations
a put-down to silence someone
- Bulgarian: дрън-дрън-дрън (drǎn-drǎn-drǎn)
- Dutch: blablabla (nl), bla bla bla
- German: blablabla
- Greek: μπούρου-μπούρου (boúrou-boúrou)
- Polish: bla, bla
- Portuguese: blá blá blá
- Russian: ля-ля-тополя́ (ru) (lja-lja-topoljá), не на́до ля-ля́ (ne nádo lja-ljá), бла-бла-бла́ (ru) (bla-bla-blá)
- Serbo-Croatian: bla bla bla
- Swedish: bla bla, bla bla bla
- Turkish: vıdı vıdı vıdı, dır dır (tr)
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a stand-in for trivial, obvious, or boring content
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 哇啦哇啦 (wālāwālā), 巴拉巴拉 (bālābālā), blabla, 吧啦吧啦 (bālābālā)
- Dutch: blabhlabla, bla bla bla
- Finnish: pälä-pälä-pälä
- French: blablabla (fr), et patati et patata (fr)
- German: Blabla (de) n, Blablabla (de) n
- Italian: blablabla
- Māori: turituri warawara
- Polish: ple-ple (pl)
- Portuguese: blá blá blá
- Russian: ля-ля-ля́ (ru) (lja-lja-ljá), бла-бла-бла́ (ru) (bla-bla-blá), ля-ля́ фа-фа́ (lja-ljá fa-fá)
- Spanish: bla bla bla, bla-bla-bla, blablablá
- Swedish: blablabla
- Thai: บลา บลา บลา (blaa blaa blaa)
- Vietnamese: bô lô ba la (vi), ba la bô lô (vi)
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