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here's looking at you

here's looking at you phrase: a toast made to a friend or acquaintance when drinking an alcoholic beverage.

Phrase

here's looking at you

  1. A toast made to a friend or acquaintance when drinking an alcoholic beverage.
    • "Here's looking at you," said Yates, strolling into the barn, taking a telescopic metal cup from his pocket, and clinking it into receptive shape by a jerk of the hand. He offered the now elongated cup to Hiram, who declined any such modern improvement.
      "Help yourself in that thing. The jug's good...1894, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in In the Midst of Alarms
    • "I drink out of the bottle—not your style.
      Mayn't I offer you—?"
      "No, no, no, thank you."
      "Just as you say. Here's looking at you then."1915, Robert Frost, A Hundred Collars

Questions about here's looking at you

What does here's looking at you mean?
Here's looking at you means a toast made to a friend or acquaintance when drinking an alcoholic beverage.
What part of speech is here's looking at you?
Here's looking at you is a phrase.

Words near here's looking at you in the dictionary

  1. here're
  2. here's
  3. here's a quarter, call somebody who cares
  4. here's a quarter, call someone who cares
  5. here's hoping
  6. here's looking at you
  7. here's luck
  8. here's mud in your eye
  9. here's one I made earlier
  10. here's the deal
  11. here's the thing

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