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Phrase(s): Here’s to someone or something an expression used as a toast to someone or something to wish someone or something well. • Here’s to Jim and Mary! May they be very happy! • Here’s to your new job!
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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One salutes someone or something. For example, Here's to Bill on his retirement, or Here's to the new project. This phrase, nearly always used as a toast to someone or something, is a shortening of here's a health to and has been so used since the late 1500s. Shakespeare had it in Romeo and Juliet (5:3): "Here's to my Love."
American Heritage Idioms