Toodle-oo,

Posted by Bob on November 28, 2005

In Reply to: Toodle-oo, posted by Uncle Mort on November 28, 2005

: Toodle-oo, Toodle-pip. I think the first is a corruption of the French "A tout a l'heure", literally 'just on the hour' but really meaning "goodbye for now", "See you later" etc. My guess is that the expression 'toodle-pip' is the of the same derivation but modified when the Greenwich time signal was introduced to mark the hour.
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