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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
"The pipeline from bench to bedside is decades-long and often things that work in animals fail when they get to clinical trials. Is it taking so long because sex isn't being considered enough?" said Rowe.
That means that everything that sabotaged us this time and has held us back for so long, we can fix.
In the days that followed, the IRA issued a statement apologising for the grief it had caused the families of the Disappeared and that their suffering had continued for so long.
Kyiv has been asking to use long-range Western missiles inside Russia for so long that Moscow has already taken precautions.
They’ve been waiting so long for the first and perhaps only time to be teammates this season.
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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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