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Idiom

say goodbye

Meaning

To separate from someone or something.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“It is time to say goodbye to my friends.”

“She felt sad when she had to say goodbye to her colleagues on her last day at the office.”

“After years of living in the city, he realized it was finally time to say goodbye to the life he had built and move toward a new future.”

Examples

simple

“It is time to say goodbye to my friends.”

contextual

“She felt sad when she had to say goodbye to her colleagues on her last day at the office.”

complex

“After years of living in the city, he realized it was finally time to say goodbye to the life he had built and move toward a new future.”

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