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kum ba yada yada yada 

The temporary after-effects of a tragedy big enough to attract public attention, whereby politicians talk on and on (and on and on...) about how people need to be more civil and respectful of each other, when everyone knows the new mindset is a temporary one.

Can also be used to describe what happens after a business aquisition when the CEO of the expanded company addresses the employees of the acquired firm and says 'we're all one big family', just before the layoff notices are sent.
Person 1: I think that due to (fill in tragedy here) people are going to think before they do or say something hurtful when they disagree.

Person 2: Why, because of all that kum ba yada yada yada on TV? Don't hold your breath.

Yada yada yada 

Yeah. I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner, I had the lobster bisque, we went back to my place, yada yada yada, I never heard from him again.
Yada yada yada by Genku July 29, 2003
So on and so forth. Used as a replacement word for an action that is either too obvious, banal and/or equivoque to speak aloud. Usually repeated; "yada, yada, yada". Is to action what blah is to spoken words.
She asked me if I wanted to come up for a nightcap and - yada, yada, yada - we where back together again.
yada by DuFeu March 8, 2005

Yada yada yada 

We played ball, swam in the river, shelled oysters, yada yada yada, and then went home.
Yada yada yada by Hawk73 September 25, 2003
The saying Yada Yada made popular by the Seinfeld show probably either originates from the Hebrew word yada "to know" or yadah "to revere or worship with extended hands".

Source: Strongs Concordance, Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament. 3034, 3035
yada by scraammer November 5, 2005
Yada is a Hebrew word which literally means "to know." It has come to mean 'and so on, and so on, and so on,' or 'et cetera, et cetera, et cetera' which is latin for 'and so forth, and so forth, and so forth.' One can think of yada, yada, yada to mean, "you know, you know, you know" as if to say just more of the same as I've already told you.
In the produce section of the grocery store they have carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, yada, yada, yada.
yada by rich_in_nm February 15, 2010