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riddance

/rid-ns/US // ˈrɪd ns //UK // (ˈrɪdəns) //

告别,辞世,辞旧迎新,辞别

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
    • : relief or deliverance from something.

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Examples

  • There was almost nothing good about it, and we saw it off with a “good riddance” and hopes for a better 2021.

  • Good riddance, say many—but such distinctions have brought us things like, you know, medicine.

  • As Solomon says, “myth building makes quick riddance of inconvenient facts,” and the same could be said of dramatization.

  • Good riddance, I thought, and I didn't plan on ever coming back.

  • He's clearly a troubled man, but he's also a gonif and a loser, so good riddance to him.

  • Michael C. Moynihan says good riddance to the failed pontiff.

  • But as no junk-man came, and as no one could be found to care for its now sadly battered hulk, its good riddance became a problem.

  • Simmy Gordon, the village cut-up, said hit was a cheap funeral fer Ugly en good riddance.

  • Mebbe it'll die fightin', same's he did, and I never'll hear no more from it,—and a good riddance.

  • He went on to declare with that loud voice of his that the death of Lopez was a good riddance of bad rubbish.

  • Good riddance of bad rubbish, as can't help making a beast of itself.