whallah
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whallah
- voila; ta-da, presto; lo and behold
- 1984, Josh Greenfield, The Return of Mister Hollywood, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 23:
- People back East always thought it was a simple matter: a property, a star, a director — and whallah — a picture.
- 2011 November 13, James Altucher, “10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College”, in TechCruch:
- They were mammoth but if you turned down a random corner then, whallah!—there might be an arts & crafts show.