Usage of "by and by" | TermGallery

Portuguese

At some eventual time in the future.

Making progress, but slowly.

Usage of by and by in English

Wait; have patience; by and by, I hope, I shall do better. 
 Records of a Girlhood 

It will have its crisis by and by, like a cutaneous eruption. 
 Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel 

We will talk of the consolidation of the Union by and by. 
 Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 

Well, by and by one of them stood up in the boat. 
 Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune 

Tell him to wait; I will speak to him by and by. 
 Lucretia — Volume 06 

Hence home and in comes Captain Ferrers and by and by Mr. 
 Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 21: March/April 1662-63 

He did not require furniture; that he would make by and by. 
 Ben Hadden; or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It 

Yes, if you like; by and by, when the lamp is lighted. 
 Janet's Love and Service 

But trust him by and by to taste the bitter-sweet of it. 
 Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales 

You shall tell me by and by when we are in town. 
 Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories 

But others among the lordly suitors will bend it by and by. 
 The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) / Stories from the Classic... 

Then, by and by, the parson will drop in, and we argue. 
 "My Novel" — Volume 07 

And by and by out we would swing again into the glare. 
 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 

The boy grew up and by and by a baby sister arrived. 
 Married 

And by and by the thing she had been waiting for came. 
 The Precipice: A Novel 

The darkness thinned by and by and a fine moon came out. 
 The Border Watch: A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand 

Translations for by and by

Portuguese

Meanings of by and by in English