Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Good-by. Also
so long .
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Examples
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Wednesday we said so-long and farewell and enough already to retiring Indiana Senator Evan “Nobody Likes Me Anymore” Bayh.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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Wednesday we said so-long and farewell and enough already to retiring Indiana Senator Evan “Nobody Likes Me Anymore” Bayh.
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To borrow a page from Larry King, I don't want to say "good-bye," because that sounds so final, but rather, "so-long" to the Great White Way.
Pee-wee Herman: I'm Not Perfect, But After My New Year's Resolutions I Will Be Pee-wee Herman 2011
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(I doubt the above address was "stirring," esp. given her so-long Alaska speech a week or two ago.)
Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group 2009
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To borrow a page from Larry King, I don't want to say "good-bye," because that sounds so final, but rather, "so-long" to the Great White Way.
Pee-wee Herman: I'm Not Perfect, But After My New Year's Resolutions I Will Be Pee-wee Herman 2011
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Late Romanticism had already produced its share of goodbyes — Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, with its own so-long farewell "Der Abschied," was also premiered in 1911 — but I think it was Rosenkavalier that made lush, chromatic tonality a signal of nostalgic intent.
Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Late Romanticism had already produced its share of goodbyes — Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, with its own so-long farewell "Der Abschied," was also premiered in 1911 — but I think it was Rosenkavalier that made lush, chromatic tonality a signal of nostalgic intent.
Archive 2008-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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If this last reason fits, there is no shame in hitting the delete button and saying so-long to that message muddling up your inbox.
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Millions came to watch, hundreds of millions glued to the TV, to celebrate the end of the Bush/Cheney years - never a more richly deserved and so-long delayed good riddance to a despised regime - and the beginning of the administration of this “skinny black man with the funny name,” as Obama has called himself.
Obama's Inauguration: the Hopes of a Nation, the Needs of an Empire 2009
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When it comes to high-order transit, transit oriented development should grow organically, so-long as the proper zoning is provided by the city.
“Say “no” to TransLink and Metro’s Hong Kong model for funding transit” « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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