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here's to

here's to phrase: a phrase used before drinking a toast.

Phrase

here's to

  1. (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”

Origin of here's to

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

Questions about here's to

What does here's to mean?
Here's to means a phrase used before drinking a toast.
What part of speech is here's to?
Here's to is a phrase.

Words near here's to in the dictionary

  1. here's luck
  2. here's mud in your eye
  3. here's one I made earlier
  4. here's the deal
  5. here's the thing
  6. here's to
  7. here, here
  8. here, there and everywhere
  9. here, there, and everywhere
  10. here-script
  11. here-scripts

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