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Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- go bye-bye, Baby Talk.
- to leave; depart; go out.
- to go to sleep; go to bed.
Example Sentences
The bye bye is being sung, incidentally, by mothers to their babies condemned to death by King Herod.
Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
The year before that, West Side Story and Bye Bye Birdie were huge sellers.
“Bye Bye Birdie” actor Dick Van Dyke and his wife were saved by a couple of Good Samaritans when their car went up in smoke.
I was a pretty decent Conrad Birdie in my high school production of Bye Bye Birdie.
“Bye-bye, Willie,” sang out Harvey, looking back and waving his cap derisively.
More than once she had left him with a laconic "Bye-bye," and he had spent a miserable evening before an unsympathetic fire.
Prompted by Nanna, Jack screamed out: "Bye-bye, mummy; come back happy."
Bye-bye, Mamma, with your little cabin and your boys; some day you will have peace and plenty.
To live in the Bye-bye Meadow was sometimes a dangerous thing, for all the big people lived there.
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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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