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!

Examples of good riddance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Rather than good riddance, several Red Sox players joined Cora in wishing Devers well in San Francisco, which inherited his $313.5 million contract through 2034. —Cam Inman, Mercury News, 21 June 2025

Washington’s tear-jerking post-mortem apologies are likely to fall on deaf audience ears, Othello’s suicide a decidedly un-noble good riddance. —Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025

Hello, touch screen, good riddance, touch pad: The 2025 MDX’s 12.3-inch touch screen is noticeably closer to the driver than the previous model’s screen. —Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025

But a secular critique might say, well, good riddance to religion, to obscurantism, to supernaturalism. —Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025

If your family chaos scares them off early, good riddance. —Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2025

Sign up for Axios Communicators Scott Rosenberg Jan 8, 2025 - Business Zuckerberg and Meta say good riddance to fact-checking Distinguishing truth from falsehood is frustrating, endless, thankless work — and now Mark Zuckerberg is walking away from it. —Ina Fried, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025

Let this be good riddance to talk of scrapping them. —The Editors, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024