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bid adieu
Idioms and Phrases
Say goodbye, take leave of, as in It's beyond my bedtime, so I bid you all adieu , or I'll be glad to bid adieu to these crutches . French for “goodbye,†adieu literally means “to God†and was part of à dieu vous commant , “I commend you to God.†Adopted into English in the 1300s, it was first recorded in Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida (c. 1385). Today it is considered quite formal, although it also is used humorously.Example Sentences
I bid adieu to Greg and drove west.
The “Criminal Minds†alum on Thursday took to Instagram to clarify reports about his personal life and bid adieu to those slinging mud into his orbit.
What pages should you keep, and which should you bid adieu?
Anna Delvey didn't mince words as she bid adieu to "Dancing With the Stars," after being eliminated from the show on Tuesday.
Understandably, there are fans on both sides who would prefer to bid adieu to the dented rivalry, who believe something essential cannot be reclaimed, who contend that both programs would benefit from a future without big or little brother.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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