bid adieu

Idioms  

1. Say goodbye, take leave of, as in It's beyond my bedtime, so I bid you all adieu, or I'll be glad to bid adieu to these crutches. French for “goodbye,” adieu literally means “to God” and was part of à dieu vous commant, “I commend you to God.” Adopted into English in the 1300s, it was first recorded in Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida (c. 1385). Today it is considered quite formal, although it also is used humorously.

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Example Sentences

Bid adieu to summer, as the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22 officially starts fall at 10:21 a.m., according to the U.S.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2016

Bid adieu to all such fond and idle hopes.

From In the Days of Chivalry by Everett-Green, Evelyn

Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, Bid adieu to girlish days, Happy Love is come to woo Thee and woo thy girlish ways— The zone that doth become thee fair, The snood upon thy yellow hair.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

"Bid adieu to my wife, kiss her hand, and then God be with you!"

From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.