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Good-bye
A contraction of God be with you. Similar to the French
adieu, which is à Dieu (I commend you to God).
Some object to the substitution of “God” in this phrase, reminding
us of our common phrases good day, good night, good morning, good
evening; “Good be with ye” would mean may you fare well, or good
abide [with you].
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Good-bye from Infoplease:
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- Good Bye, Lenin! - Starring Daniel Brühl, Maria Simon, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas
- Norreys Jephson O'Conor: Good-Bye - Good-bye to tree and tower, To meadow, stream, and hill, Beneath the white clouds marshalled close At the wind's will.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Good-Bye - Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. Long through thy weary crowds I roam; A river-ark on the ocean brine
- Walt Whitman: Good-Bye My Fancy - Good-bye my fancy—(I had a word to say, But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say, Is when its proper place arrives—and for its me
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