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A blessing in disguise, since the word literally smuggles God into your farewell.
means A word said when parting from someone, wishing them well as they go.
from A genuine case of the essence telling the truth: "goodbye" is a worn-down contraction of "God be with you," a 16th-century parting blessing. Over centuries the phrase compressed in everyday speech — "God be wi' ye" — and the "God" was likely reshaped to "good" by analogy with greetings like "good day" and "good night." So the holy farewell quietly turned into a polite, secular one, with the deity still buried in the first syllable.
- hidden prayer
- Contracted from God be with ye
- hello's twin
- Every goodbye implies a prior hello
- longest fade
- Beatles song repeats the word over twenty times
- no return
- Italian addio means to God, forever