kissed goodbye
Smooched before leaving
To kiss something goodbye is to accept its loss as inevitable, usually with resignation: You can kiss that money goodbye, When the storm hit, we kissed our vacation plans goodbye.
The phrase suggests a final, almost ceremonial acknowledgment that something is gone or ruined beyond recovery.
- partingAct of leaving another
- relinquishmentFormal giving up
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
- farewellLeave-taking expression
- final farewellConclusive leave-taking
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