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Definition of la-la land noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

la-la land

noun

NAmE//ˈlɑ lɑ ˌlænd//

[uncountable] (informal) (disapproving)

if you say that someone is living in la-la land, you mean that they do not understand what a situation is really like, but think it is much better than it is

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