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so long

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So long. (American, informal)
a friendly way of saying goodbye to someone. So long - see you tomorrow.
See also: long


so long
1. goodbye. So long, see you tomorrow. If he didn't want to see her anymore, would he be able to tell her so long?
Usage notes: usually used in a friendly way
2. a very long time. I haven't seen him in so long.
See also: long

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But what are we going to tell your aunt Sally has made us so long getting down here from the village, Tom?
A smile crossed his face then, and he turned his eyes on me with a trustful look, as if he were confident that I had seen some small redeeming touch in him, even so long ago as when I was a little child.
But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand in every appointment in the state, from a president to a postman; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous class, who must find their reading in a newspaper, or they will not read at all; so long must its odium be upon the country's head, and so long must the evil it works, be plainly visible in the Republic.
 
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