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so long
interjection
- goodbye:
I said so long and left.
so long
sentence substitute
- informal.farewell; goodbye
adverb
- slang.for the time being; meanwhile
Word History and Origins
Origin of so long1
Idioms and Phrases
Good-bye, as in So long, we'll see you next week . The allusion here is puzzling; long presumably means “a long time” and perhaps the sense is “until we meet again after a long time,” but the usage has no such implication. [ Colloquial ; first half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Superhero titles — for so long the movie industry’s version of IBM stock — have been on an especially strange ride.
He is homeless, and said he recalls being handcuffed so long people were forced to urinate on themselves.
In other words, the system had its points-so long as Americans were willing to trade representativeness for effectiveness.
That is to say, the last pipe of all before the so-long indomitable intellect abdicates, and the body succumbs to weariness.
Al had not seen the bay, and the talk tapered off desultorily to a final "So-long, see yuh later."
"So-long," called Connie, as he stood beside the sled a half-hour later.
The other nodded; then, with a "so-long," he cut across the street and disappeared into an office where he had business.
“So-long, kid,” he called, as his head sank to the level of the sidewalk.
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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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