Of course like any history there are a multitude of myths and tales that go with it. Our favourite is that the real reason people clink their glasses together before drinking is to ensure the drink is safe, because the liquid will slosh over the side of the cup, mixing all of the drinks. If someone has chosen to put poison in the glass it will then poison all of the drinks and the treacherous person will have to reveal themselves.
It's just something I appropriated from other people. I reserve cheers solely for using on strangers. I'm not very consistent though, I tend to use either whenever I feel like it. So defiantly no rules. I'd be interested to see what others say though. I am a waiter in a restaurant.
When I give a drink to an English guest, he thanks me by saying "Thank you" and my answer is "Cheers". Sometimes I get a reply "cheers for that". I'm using "Cheers" like a salute. It is the equivalent of 'good health'. It must have been around the 's that it first started apearing in this guise, as far as my memory goes. Its route into this part of colloquial English is unclear unless it came from the earlier 'Cheerio', which was used in lieu of 'farewell', and was certainly around during and probably before World War II.
So far as I'm aware, 'Cheers' as a colloquial farewell is rather more recent than the more usual meaning of 'thank you'. As the other UK comments have said, it's treated as a slightly more informal way of saying 'thanks' or 'thank you'. Given the tendency for Brits to be overly polite in certain situations, it comes in useful as a synonym: if you've already said thanks when being handed your drink, and when handing over the money, you'll need cheers when you get your change back.
Not that I would ever do this, of course It can also be accompanied by the people involved touching their drinking vessels together, like this or, just raising their vessels, like this. I use cheers at work as a way of appreciating and their response is usually "thank you". Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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Email Facebook 11 Pinterest 1 Twitter. Why Do We Clink Glasses? About the author Related Posts. Natalie LaVolpe. Previous Post. Next Post. Hope that helps. In British English, you could say "See you then, mate. It is also informally used to mean friend, as in "I was with a mate. To bodge something. Before the s, yes was often used only as an affirmative to a negative question, and yea was used as the all-purpose way to say "yes.
You use proper to describe things that you consider to be real and satisfactory rather than inadequate in some way. If you say that a way of behaving is proper , you mean that it is considered socially acceptable and right.
Proper is used as adjective here, meaning "belonging or relating exclusively to. This may be confusing because it is also the word you say to wish someone good health when toasting a drink. No, Americans only use it as a toast, although we're aware that people from the UK and Australia use it as thanks or goodbye. Sometimes it is used now to mean "thanks" or "you're welcome" in addition to the toasting context.
Its an old black american slang. Many old rappers used it in the 80s or 90s in their lyrics. When it became popular to say ' me ' instead of 'my ' in Merseyside in the late 19th century, Liverpudlians settling in Ireland got the Irish used to saying ' me ' instead of 'my '. It just spread throughout the whole of Ireland after that.
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