yada yada
And so on
Yada yada (also yada yada yada) stands in for tedious or predictable details the speaker doesn't want to bother recounting: He gave me the whole spiel about how they're committed to customer service, yada yada yada.
It signals that what's being skipped is either obvious, boring, or unimportant.
The phrase suggests the listener can fill in the rest themselves.
- blah blahTedious empty talk
- blah blah blahPlaceholder for tedious speech
- yadda yadda yaddaVerbal fast-forward gesture
- and so onIndicates continuation of series
- whateverExpression of apathy
long story short · rambling · droning · boring · tedious · mumbling · chatter · filler · white noise · noise · monotone · tuning out · tune it out · bored · glossing over · skipping · fast forward · hand wave
- rhyming reduplicativesflip flop, hip hop, tip top, zigzag, ping pong
- Whimsy Wordsgobbledygook, gibberish, mumbo jumbo, hogwash, balderdash
- "And More" Phrasesetc., etcetera, and so forth, et al., whatnot
- placeholdersplaceholder, bar, blank, dummy, filler
- TV catchphrasesbazinga, how you doin, pivot, doh, live long and prosper
- nonsensenonsense, absurd, gibberish, gobbledegook, gobbledygook
yada yadaword for word
Exactly as spoken
verbatim · chapter and verse · blow by blow · the whole nine yards · in its entirety
yada yadaspecifics
Exact details of something
particulars · the whole truth · chapter and verse · verbatim · word for word