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MUSCOVITE Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

How to "interpret" this toast?

Hi,

Here's is looking at you, kid!

(Humphrey Bogard toasting Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca)

It sounds enigmatic to me... If you could explain?

Thank you so much!

mus-te
  

Top answer

Here's looking at you, kid! There is nothing to it. It is an invitation to drink for no other reason than that he is looking at her.

— Mister Micawber

  • Here's looking at you, kid!
  • There is nothing to it.
  • It is an invitation to drink for no other reason than that he is looking at her.
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Here's looking at you, kid!

There is nothing to it. It is an invitation to drink for no other reason than that he is looking at her.
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Mister MicawberThere is nothing to it. It is an invitation to drink for no other reason than that he is looking at her.
And no wonder, women have been driving men to drink ever since the discovery of alcohol!
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AlpheccaStarsAnd no wonder, women have been driving men to drink ever since the discovery of alcohol!
...And I have the ex-wives to prove it!
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