kiss someone

kiss someone
or[something goodbye] {v. phr.} To lose or give up someone or something forever. * /"If you won't marry Jane," Peter said to Tom, "you might as well kiss her goodbye."/ * /People who bet on a losing horse at the races might as well kiss their money goodbye./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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