“Drink our health” = to offer our good wishes to someone while drinking alcohol. I also can say” drink a toast “which idiom same as with other one…
Note: “drink a toast “= At one time a piece of spiced toast would be put in a glass of wine in order to improve the flavor or to collect the sediment. From this the word 'toast' came to be identified with the drink. Equally, the mention of a lady's name to accompany the gesture was supposed to flavour a bumper as spiced toast did a drink. Known by 1700.
It means that to wish somebody/something good luck by holding your glass up in the air before you drink. for example: we all drank to the future of the bride and groom.
Drink our health is used in toasts of alchol also they say "cheers" and "chin chin" these are for good wishes and for the things we want in the future..
it is usually used when we toast; we lift our hands up holding the glasses, i didn't know that there should have been alchool in it though, then we say "drink our health" which means we wish health and happiness for the future.
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“Drink our health” = to offer our good wishes to someone while drinking alcohol. I also can say” drink a toast “which idiom same as with other one…
Note: “drink a toast “= At one time a piece of spiced toast would be put in a glass of wine in order to improve the flavor or to collect the sediment. From this the word 'toast' came to be identified with the drink. Equally, the mention of a lady's name to accompany the gesture was supposed to flavour a bumper as spiced toast did a drink. Known by 1700.
Sources: Longman Dictionary...
The idiom drink our health is used in toasts when whishing and wanting people to have good things in their lives in diners or special nights.
It means that to wish somebody/something good luck by holding your glass up in the air before you drink. for example: we all drank to the future of the bride and groom.
Sources: oxford dictionary
Drink our health is used in toasts of alchol also they say "cheers" and "chin chin" these are for good wishes and for the things we want in the future..
it is usually used when we toast; we lift our hands up holding the glasses, i didn't know that there should have been alchool in it though, then we say "drink our health" which means we wish health and happiness for the future.
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