Meaning of good riddance to bad rubbish | Babel Free

Definitions

An act of getting rid of someone or something whose departure is welcomed.

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Examples

“[W]e should really look upon this author's [Samuel Jackson Pratt's] departure from the world of literature as a good riddance of bad rubbish; [...]”

“[W]e have simply emanations falling back again upon their source, and as in the Kabbalah and with the Buddhist, a longing for peace in rest and eternal sleep—a re-absorption, and in fact annihilation as the end most devoutly to be wished; in fact the getting quit of ourselves as a very good riddance to bad rubbish, and which is actually the sum and substance of the pervading idea of the Buddhist religion.”

“It was not seen as good riddance to bad rubbish, but it was welcome news in many quarters.”

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