To Disdain and Dismiss, There's Nothing Like Yiddish

If the names Chanan and Aliza seem to naturally flow together in your mind, you probably were exposed to the ancient earworm-y Israeli nursery rhyme about a pair with those names, who yatz’u lasadeh, “went out into the field.” One half of the pair is a shepherd (“Chanan haro’eh”) and the other a lamb (“v’Aliza haseh”).

And you will easily recall the song’s memorable refrain: “Meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh (2x).”

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