"why oh why" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1993, New Statesman Society",
          "text": "Are these terrible figures greeted by hysterical \"why-oh-why?\" letters to the Times demanding a huge shift in resources from road-building to rail-modernisation?",
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          "ref": "2005, Fred Sedgwick, How to Teach with a Hangover: A Practical Guide to Overcoming Classroom Crises, A&C Black, page 94",
          "text": "Indeed, a right-wing paper is hardly ready for press without a why-oh-why article on children's failures to identify verbs and nouns.",
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          "ref": "2006, Ben Summerskill, The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century, A&C Black, page 7",
          "text": "To mark the introduction of civil partnership in Britain, the Daily Telegraph duly featured a bitter polemic from 'Why-oh-Why' columnist Ferdinand Mount.",
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          "ref": "2009, Andrew Marr, My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism, Pan Macmillan, page 27",
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