BY THE BYE Definition & Meaning

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, by the by . Incidentally, in passing, as in By the bye, my wife is coming too , or Exactly where do you live, by the by ? The bye or second by in this term originally meant “a side path,” whence the current sense of “off the track” or “of secondary importance.” [Early 1500s] Also see by the way .

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“She had engaged to go as governess to Mrs. Smallridge’s children—a dear friend of Mrs. Elton’s—a neighbour of Maple Grove; and, by the bye, I wonder how Mrs. Elton bears the disappointment?”

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“What’ll you drink, Mr.—? You didn’t mention your name, by the bye.”

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After missing most of two games with a concussion, followed by the bye week, Slovis hasn’t seen the field much since having three passes intercepted against Brigham Young.

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Indeed, perhaps the only true words he had spoken that decade, though that is by the bye.

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But this was all by the bye—the sort of routine Trump gasbaggery that members of his staff could walk back later, if they were so inclined.

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