wave/say goodbye to sth
informal humorousDefinition
› to accept that you will no longer have something you value or that you will not get something you hoped to receive: Well, if you've argued with senior management you can wave goodbye to any chances of promotion!Losing and lossWinning and losing
(Definition of wave/say goodbye to sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- astray adverb
- black hole noun
- desert verb (LEAVE BEHIND)
- disappear verb
- escape noun (GET FREE)
- forfeit noun
- get to phrasal verb
- haemorrhage noun
- haemorrhage verb
- kiss sth goodbye idiom
- lose verb (NOT HAVE)
- lose your way idiom
- loss noun
- lost adjective (PLACE UNKNOWN)
- mislay verb
- misplace verb
- say goodbye to sth idiom
- slip through sb's fingers idiom
- stray verb
Topic:
Losing and loss
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