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‖ sayonara|sajoːnara, saɪəˈnɑːrə| [Jap.] Good-bye. As n., a farewell, a leave-taking; also attrib. As v. trans., to say ‘sayonara’ to.
1875Colburn's United Service Mag. Oct. 185 ‘Sionara!’ (good bye), is your answer. 1880Golden Days for Boys & Girls 3 Apr. 71/4 After this speech they all cried: ‘Sayonara (farewell), Momotaro!’ 1892Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 51 A traveller who has been ‘ohayoed’ into half-a-dozen shops and ‘sayonaraed’ out of half-a-dozen more. 1908Lady R. Churchill Reminiscences (1973) xiii. 252 Many sayonaras were exchanged. 1910Pacific Monthly XXIII. 259/2 He is a bad man. You go away! Sayonara! 1952T. J. Mulvey These are your Sons vii. 146 The Sisters had arranged the children in the stiff and formal formation for the ‘sayonara’. 1965This is Japan 1966 106 The Honourable Sex Shop then rescued me from an embarrassing and even disastrous sayonara at Kobe. 1972Mainichi Daily News (Japan) 6 Nov. 7/4 The International Camera Club of Japan will hold a special Sayonara party for outgoing Chairman John Thorpe, Tues., Nov. 8. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) iii. 25 If I ever knew for sure what I suspect about you, Philo, it'd be sayonara, baby. |