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Phrase
edit- (idiomatic) A phrase used before drinking a toast.
- Cheers! Here's to our future, and here's to absent friends!
- 1919, Rudyard Kipling, “Fuzzy Wuzzy”:
- 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!
- 1968 April 5, Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson”, in Bookends[1], performed by Simon & Garfunkel:
- And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
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editphrase used before drinking a toast
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