- used when you are leaving somebody or when somebody else is leaving
- Goodbye! It was great to meet you.
- She didn't even say goodbye to her mother.
- Say goodbye to Mary for me.
- We waved them goodbye.
- We've already said our goodbyes.
- Kiss me goodbye!
- (figurative) Take out our service contract and say goodbye to costly repair bills.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGoodbye is used before these nouns:- kiss
- wave
Word Originlate 16th cent.: contraction of God be with you!, with good substituted on the pattern of phrases such as good morning.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See goodbye in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarykiss something goodbye | kiss goodbye to something
- (informal) to accept that you will lose something or be unable to do something
- Well, you can kiss goodbye to your chances of promotion.
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