here's to

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here's to

  1. (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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