Meaning of sayonara | Babel Free

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An utterance of sayonara, the wishing of farewell to someone.

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“After a simply marvelous, entertaining two and a half hour meal, they reclaimed their shoes and ceremoniously bid their sayonaras to the Japanese girls.”

“Here, I thought, was a team in last place, thirty-six games out of first place, which had lost two games out of every three for more than six months—yet still its faithful were rising to give it this heartfelt show of support. Sayōnara'''s were hosannas here.”

“Four chocolate bars and seven packages of chewing gum changed hands and then with a flurry of waves and “Sayōnaras” we were off.”

“I'm behind the trigger, what if I am the target? / Deep sigh, a sayōnara, I ain't afraid to die / It's either goodbye or good mornin’, and the skies start to fallin’”

“The door handle clacked against its stop twice. High time for his sayōnara.”

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