whallah

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French voilà pronunciation respelling

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whallah

  1. 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.