here's to

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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!

   • 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!

Translations

phrase used before drinking a toast

• German: auf
• Irish: faoi thuairim

Anagrams

• heteros, so there, those're, threose