HERE’S TO YOU (AT YOU, UNTO YOU, NOW, or LUCK), phr. (common).—An invitation to drink; here’s a health to you. For synonyms, see DRINKS.

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  1651.  CARTWRIGHT, The Royall Slave, iii., 1. HERE’S TO THEE, Leocrates.

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  1701.  NED WARD, A Walk to Islington, p. 11.

        For want of a Third in our Mess, we were fain
To use Hertfordshire kindness, HERE’S TO YOU again.

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  1853.  Diogenes, ii., 46.

                Each a pot in his hand ….
Observed in a style of remarkable ease,
            ‘Old Buck
            HERE’S LUCK,’
And then at the pewter proceeded to suck.

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  HERE’S LUCK, phr. (tailors’).—I don’t believe you.

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  I AM NOT HERE, phr. (tailors’).—‘I don’t feel inclined to work’; ‘I wish to be left alone.’

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  HERE’S TO IT, phr. (common).—An obscene toast. See IT, sense 2.

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