Dear John letter

noun

1. informal,  a letter from someone (esp to a man) breaking off a love affair

Example Sentences

Maybe only on second reading do we realize that we’ve been reading a kind of Dear John letter to America.

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On this record, “Red Eye Flight” could be a goodbye to a lover, or it could be a Dear John letter to addiction.

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But not long after Mr. Angeloni opened his account, he got his own Dear John letter.

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On the musical “Dear John” letter, a resigned Jones sings of “folding my hand.”

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Later that evening, he finally unearthed the bank’s Dear John letter: “Financial institutions have an obligation to know our customers and monitor transactions,” it said.

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