good riddance
idiom
—used to say that one is glad that someone is leaving or that something has gone
Winter is finally over, and I say good riddance!
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For others, menopause parties are an opportunity to bid good riddance to painful or difficult periods.
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Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 10 Sep. 2023
Goodbye, good riddance and … good to see you again?
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
And merely dismissing Charney as an aberrant offender — the one bad apple, good riddance — is a too-tidy conclusion for why these messy, glittering worlds continue to captivate us.
—Dana Schwartz, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
Apple tv+’s Ted Lasso has concluded its final episode, and good riddance.
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 4 June 2023
And so in 1975, the Hotel Dallas (originally the Jefferson Hotel), a 12-story block built in 1917 on the southwest corner of Houston and Wood streets, was summarily demolished, goodbye and good riddance.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is on hiatus this week, but TV’s other late-night hosts all took the opportunity to say good riddance with jokes about Carlson’s militant stance about the green M&M, his unsettling laugh, and his support for Russian president Vladimir Putin.
—Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
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Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 10 Sep. 2023
Goodbye, good riddance and … good to see you again?
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
And merely dismissing Charney as an aberrant offender — the one bad apple, good riddance — is a too-tidy conclusion for why these messy, glittering worlds continue to captivate us.
—Dana Schwartz, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
Apple tv+’s Ted Lasso has concluded its final episode, and good riddance.
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 4 June 2023
And so in 1975, the Hotel Dallas (originally the Jefferson Hotel), a 12-story block built in 1917 on the southwest corner of Houston and Wood streets, was summarily demolished, goodbye and good riddance.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is on hiatus this week, but TV’s other late-night hosts all took the opportunity to say good riddance with jokes about Carlson’s militant stance about the green M&M, his unsettling laugh, and his support for Russian president Vladimir Putin.
—Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
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