kisses goodbye
Lips before leaving
To kiss goodbye is to give a departing kiss, but the phrase more often appears figuratively: you can kiss something goodbye when you've lost it or must abandon hope for it.
After the scandal broke, he could kiss his political career goodbye.
We missed the last train—kiss that reservation goodbye.
- blowing kissesGestured affection sent airborne
- partingAct of leaving another
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- affectionWarm emotional attachment
- gestureCommunicative body movement
letting it go · non-verbal · farewell · see you later · endings · nostalgia · childhood memories · moving on · tenderness · departure · separation · closure · bittersweet · love and loss · warmth · expression · longing · sadness