Idioms

here's mud in your eye

here's mud in your eye

A convivial toast to one's drinking companions. The phrase is meant to be ironic. I'd like to propose a toast. To all my best friends, who all came here tonight to see me off. Here's mud in your eye! Let's have one last drink before you have to catch your train. Here's mud in your eye! Does everyone have a drink now? OK, then here's mud in your eye!

See also: eye, mud

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here's mud in your eye!

used to express friendly feelings towards your companions before drinking. British informal

See also: mud

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Here’s mud in your eye

sent. I salute you. (A jocular drinking toast.) Here’s mud in your eye. Bottoms up!

See also: eye, mud

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

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References in periodicals archive

Here's mud in your eye! One Challenger who didn't mind the dirt

We're up for the challenge; ROARING FUN

HERE'S mud in your eye! Back Duke Of Marmalade to stay in front of New Approach in the Irish Champion Stakes (3.50).

Duke of Marmalade is back and he can nail New Approach again; CHAMP

Here's mud in your eye! The toast from TV pundit Jimmy Hill wasn't exactly one of friendship or the act of a gentleman.

A muddy trick that Jimmy Hill played

As they might say in the Rovers: 'Here's mud in your eye

JANICE SPLATTERSBY IN CORRIE MUD FIGHT

BACK TO BASICS: Catching a ride across the muck-filled fields; BEST: Main stage drew thousands; GLASS ACT: Amanda Carlisle from Lisburn cools off at Fairyhouse; HERE'S MUD IN YOUR EYE: It was all downhill for these soft rock lovers at Fairyhouse yesterday as the Witnness festival erupted; FRINGE BENEFITS: Laura Hutchinson and Vanessa Sterry; KNEES-UP: Caked in festival mud, Kevin Kelly from Tallaght takes time out before the evening fun begins; CHEERS: Here's mud in your eye

HOPE YOU LIKED WET, WET, WET; 40,000 soak up the atmosphere at Witnness bash

HERE'S mud in your eye - that will be the message to bookies if one of the favourites wins the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day.

Racing: Where there's muck there's More class

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