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so long, and thanks for all the fish

so long, and thanks for all the fish phrase: goodbye, farewell.

Phrase

so long, and thanks for all the fish

  1. (humorous) Goodbye, farewell.
    • When it was at last time to push off, he and his companion shook our hands and wished us luck, and by way of saying so long and thanks for all the fish, I gave each of them the postcards we'd had printed back in the UK2005, Paul Grogan, Barbed Wire & Babushaks: A River Odyssey Across Siberia, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48
    • […] Templates” badge, which you can request by mailing a self-addressed stamped envelope filled with 100 dollar bills to me directly. Please allow 52-104 weeks for processing and delivery. That's all there is. So long and thanks for all the fish.2007, Zac Woodall, The Rational Guide to Microsoft Office Access 2007 Templates, Rollinsford, NH: Mann Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 247

Forms of so long, and thanks for all the fish

alternative formso long and thanks for all the fish

Origin of so long, and thanks for all the fish

From the title of a 1984 comic novel by Douglas Adams, in which it is the last message left by dolphins for humankind before escaping a doomed Earth.

Questions about so long, and thanks for all the fish

What does so long, and thanks for all the fish mean?
So long, and thanks for all the fish means goodbye, farewell.
What part of speech is so long, and thanks for all the fish?
So long, and thanks for all the fish is a phrase.

Words near so long, and thanks for all the fish in the dictionary

  1. so it goes
  2. so it seems
  3. So Kon Po
  4. so long
  5. so long as
  6. so long, and thanks for all the fish
  7. so many
  8. so mickle
  9. so mote it be
  10. so much
  11. so much as

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