here's to

phrase

here's to

phrase

Etymology Shortening of "Here is a toast to […] ".

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Idiomatic A phrase used before drinking a toast.

  • Cheers! Here's to our future, and here's to absent friends!
  • So ‘ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; ⁠You're a pore benighted ‘eathen but a first-class fightin’ man; An’ ‘ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your ‘ayrick 'ead of ‘air— You big black boundin’ beggar—for you broke a British square!1919, Rudyard Kipling, “Fuzzy Wuzzy”:
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  • And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know Whoa, whoa, whoa1968 April 5, Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson”, in Bookends, performed by Simon & Garfunkel:

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