kissing goodbye
Affectionate departure ritual
Kissing goodbye is bidding farewell with a kiss, the conventional gesture when parting from someone you're close to: She kissed the children goodbye before leaving for work.
Figuratively, to kiss something goodbye is to accept its loss or give up hope for it: After the market crashed, we kissed our retirement savings goodbye.
- smoochInformal term for kissing
- peckDry measure or quick kiss
- departureAct of going away
- farewellLeave-taking expression
- embraceHold closely in arms
hug · ritual · letting go · longing · closure · smile · wave · bittersweet · parting gift · separation · tear · non-verbal cues · sigh · body language · eye contact · handshake · nod · send-off
accepting vs. relinquishing
kissing goodbyekeeping
Holding in custody
clinging to · retaining · securing · safeguarding · salvaging
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