here's to

Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Example Sentences

"So each to their own and here's to a great Festival wherever you may be watching!"

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

This week’s show is the season finale and the penultimate episode left lots of things in the air, so here’s to hoping all the loose ends get tied up.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024

Prost to Hans’ 50th anniversary, and here’s to many more years of its greatness — happily, the Stewins’ son and grandson are both already involved in the business.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

“So after many dark months, here’s to a scary leap of living fully, openly, and vulnerably and embracing the depths of the fundamental human experience of love and loss.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

“Here’s to the Minister of Poisonwood. And here’s to his five wives!”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver