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单词 give you good night
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(God) give you good night
1. As part of a customary expression of good wishes on parting (or occasionally meeting) at night or before going to bed. Also figurative and in figurative contexts, referring to loss, death, the failure of plans and hopes, etc. Originally in have good night, (God) give you good night; now chiefly in to wish (also bid) (a person) a good night, and (as an address) a good night to you.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > expressions of leave-taking > at night
goodnightc1275
Gad ye good night1849
(good night) sleep tight1933
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > parting salutation > at night > specific phrase
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9578 Nu ich fare forð-riht habbeoð alle gode niht.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 420 Haue now good nyght and late vs boþe slepe.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xv. 51 The captayne gaff the goode nyght to the damoyselle.
a1500 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Adv.) (1810) l. 187 My leve dame, have gud nyght!
?1553 Respublica (1952) v. ix. 58 Than goode night the laweiers gaine.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 12 Giue you good night.
1631 T. Heywood England's Elizabeth (1641) 87 And so gave them the good-night.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) ii. viii. 130 O my soul..art thou so loath to bid a cheerfull good-night to this piece of my selfe.
1738 R. Dodsley Sir John Cockle at Court ii. 13 I wish your Majesty a good Night.
1789 E. Hands Death of Amnon App. 105 When she had made him this reply, He'd nothing more to say But—Nelly, a good night to you, And homeward went his way.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. vi. 204 Having wished..to all others the common good-night.
1845 J. H. Ingraham Forrestal iii. 40 Wishing the two officers a ‘good night’, in return, he closed the cabin door and departed to his own state-room.
1920 L. W. Dodd Bk. of Susan ii. 31 ‘A good night to you, Mr. Hunt,’ elaborated Mrs. Parrot, not without malice.
1959 J. Prebble Buffalo Soldiers (1964) 78 He heard the children's voices calling a good night to him from behind the gunnysack curtain.
2001 S. Laurens All about Love 158 ‘All is in order, so I'll bid you a good night.’ ‘And a good night to you, my dear.’
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