goodbye to sth
Definition
› used when accepting that there is no possibility of getting, keeping, or achieving a particular thing: She only finished sixth - that surely means goodbye to a place in the final.Impossible and improbableUnachievable
(Definition of goodbye to sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be no go idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- be out of your league idiom
- elusive adjective
- for love nor money idiom
- impossibly adverb
- impracticable adjective
- in/out of the running idiom
- infeasible adjective
- inoperable adjective (NOT WORKING)
- no way idiom
- nohow adverb
- not have a cat in hell's chance idiom
- not have a/the ghost of a chance idiom
- out adverb, preposition (NOT ACCEPTABLE)
- unattainable adjective
- unfeasible adjective
- unsustainable adjective
- unworkable adjective
- will-o'-the-wisp noun
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