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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
Not so long ago, Sanders was widely projected as a top pick and maybe the player chosen No. 1 overall.
"I know people were a little bit frustrated, like 'why is it taking so long?' but these are the things that we were doing in the background," he said.
Mr Hacking said the letter, which was signed off "so long sweetheart", was personal and he would love to reunite it with Jean's family.
Partly it's because it has been so long - 20 years - since a pope has died in office.
It wasn’t so long ago that Yamamoto was in a similar position.
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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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