“Franklin quit today.”   “Well, good riddance to bad rubbish!”

And the pedlar takes the devil! ha, ha, ha!—Good riddance to bad rubbish.

"Mrs. Grimes, you are so good—but how can I sleep when poor Peter is at home by himself dead drunk?" / "Why, he is as happy as a lord mayor." / "But the house might take fire!" / "If it should, it wouldn't matter much if he went with it—good riddance to bad rubbish, say I!"

"Well, he didn't do much work," admitted the deacon. / "While he ate enough for two boys. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say."

It's good riddance to bad rubbish, but it's likely to make trouble for me yet.

"She's left." / "Yes, I know. Drink some coffee." / "She's left." / Tod knew that he put a great deal of faith in sayings, so he tried one. / "Good riddance to bad rubbish."

It's not likely any folks here'd stop him going, is it? Good riddance to bad rubbish is what I say.

Miraculously, Mrs Dooley had brought us a box of eggs. ‘You must be psychic!’ my ma said, showing her the broken ones in the bin. ‘Good riddance to bad rubbish,’ Mrs Dooley said.

So the lost sheep must have been an exceedingly troublesome old rogue and many shepherds would probably have sighed with relief that that one had disappeared and said with considerable relief, ‘Good riddance to bad rubbish.’ But the Good Shepherd refuses to give up on the recalcitrant one.

[W]e should really look upon this author's Samuel Jackson Pratt's] departure from the world of literature as a good riddance of bad rubbish; …]

[W]e have simply emanations falling back again upon their source, and as in the Kabbalah and with the Buddhist, a longing for peace in rest and eternal sleep—a re-absorption, and in fact annihilation as the end most devoutly to be wished; in fact the getting quit of ourselves as a very good riddance to bad rubbish, and which is actually the sum and substance of the pervading idea of the Buddhist religion.

It was not seen as good riddance to bad rubbish, but it was welcome news in many quarters.

Good riddance to bad rubbish

Meaning

Intj

Noun