bye-bye

[ interjection bahy-bahy; noun, adverb bahy-bahy ]

interjection

noun

Idioms about bye-bye

1700–10; apparently originally nursery phrase used to lull a child to sleep, later construed as reduplicative form of bye, short for goodbye

The bye bye is being sung, incidentally, by mothers to their babies condemned to death by King Herod.
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing. | Michael Tomasky | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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The year before that, West Side Story and Bye Bye Birdie were huge sellers.
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“Bye Bye Birdie” actor Dick Van Dyke and his wife were saved by a couple of Good Samaritans when their car went up in smoke.
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I was a pretty decent Conrad Birdie in my high school production of Bye Bye Birdie.
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“bye-bye, Willie,” sang out Harvey, looking back and waving his cap derisively.
The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith
More than once she had left him with a laconic "bye-bye," and he had spent a miserable evening before an unsympathetic fire.
The White Shield | Myrtle Reed
Prompted by Nanna, Jack screamed out: "bye-bye, mummy; come back happy."
The Little Missis | Charlotte Skinner
bye-bye, Mamma, with your little cabin and your boys; some day you will have peace and plenty.
Evening Round Up | William Crosbie Hunter
To live in the bye-bye Meadow was sometimes a dangerous thing, for all the big people lived there.
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller | Fanny E. Coe

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