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goodbye and good riddance 

An idiom or Cliché

Like. He threw himself at her feet!
Goodbye and good riddance is used when you break up with someone. It is
used to indicate that a departure, or loss is welcome.
From all the torment this woman put me through. I couldn't be more glad to see her back as she walked away.

Goodbye and good riddance!
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Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) 

A great acoustic song from Californian Pop-Punk/Alternative Rock band Green Day.

Released on their fifth album, Nimrod, it has also been included on the albums International Superhits! and Bullet In A Bible.

Alternate titles for it include Good Riddance, Time of Your Life, and Time of Your Life (Good Riddance).

Billie Joe Armstrong said about the song:

"At the time I wrote Good Riddance, I was breaking up with a girl that was moving to Ecuador, and I was trying to be as understanding about it as I could. I wrote the song as kind of a bon voyage. I was trying not to be bitter, but I think it came out a little bit bitter anyway... I thought that calling the song "Time of Your Life" was just a little too level-headed for me, so I had to come up with something different."

At the beginning of the album version, Billie Joe Armstrong messes up, tries again, makes the same mistake, then says "fuck." In between the tries, you can hear the faint sound of a digital metronome.

The song has been covered many times, and has also appeared in various other media. It has also been used many times as a graduation song.
Lyrics to Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life):

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

So take the photographs and still frames in your mind
Hang them on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos and memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

good riddance 

1. A welcome relief from someone or something undesirable or unwanted.

2. An American punk rock band

3. A well known song by popular american punk/pop/punk rock (whatever you consider them) band Green Day. Many consider it one of the band's better songs but other fans would rather choose less hyped songs.
1. "get outa my town ya'l hear. good riddance!"
2. "wow Good Riddance ROCK! i love their music!"
3. "yea lyk i <3 green day && im lyk totally the biggest fan bcoz i <3 dat song "good riddance" its fair awsum!!!"
good riddance by Ashi... May 10, 2006

good riddance 

A formal form of "Bye Felicia"
A: The Bitch got booted out of Big Brother UK
B: Good riddance
good riddance by mawire March 5, 2017
Ribday comes about only once every year and has been happening since the year 1991. The night of Ribday commonly known as "Rileys Birth Day" is celebrated in a small town in England 5190 Miles from Las Vegas called Newbury. A vast number of party goers gather and swarm the depths of "Hoggs Head". Much like Nazi Zombies the locals try and hold the fort. It only takes minutes for the levels to rise higher and the ray guns become useless causing them to become overwhelmed by the fiercely viscous intoxicated crowds. Game over for them but not for the ravenous students that feed on ethanol (C2H5OH). This fed on substance brings about side effects that greaten the levels of zombie like behaviors including: lose of nervous system, loss of consciousness and the munchies. Bouncers flee and police are powerless to the intensity of the night. God sits and waits, there is nothing he can do.
The people not present at this ongoing event are cowards to say the least. Lesser souls, under-dogs and the gammas of the packs stay home while the Alphas feast overnight. This is not just a night out... this is standard Newbury on the 9th of September... what are you going to do?
"Ahhh mate you going to Ribday?"

"no i am a fucking gamma male, i cant because i am a pussy"
Ribday by Alasdair Wauchope September 5, 2011

good riddance a bitch 

to rid the area of a bitch or unwanted person
“Becky is being really annoying lately...i’m ready to good riddance a bitch”
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The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.

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