1888. Bulletin, 24 Nov. All the dead-beats and suspected hen-snatchers plead when before the Bench that they were only ‘mouching round,’ etc.
Hens’-rights, subs. (American).—Women’s rights.
Hen-toed, adj. phr. (common).—To turn the toes in walking like a fowl.
Here. Here’s to you (at you, unto you, now, or luck), phr. (common).—An invitation to drink; here’s a health to you. For synonyms, see Drinks.
1651. Cartwright, Royal Slave. Here’s to thee, Leocrates.
1717. Ned Ward, Wks. ii., 71. Then we were fain To use Hertfordshire kindness, here’s to you again.
1853. Diogenes ii., 46. Each a pot in his hand.… Observed in a style of remarkable ease, ‘Old Buck here’s luck,’ And then at the pewter proceeded to suck.
Here’s luck, phr. (tailors’).—I don’t believe you.
I am not here, phr. (tailors’).—‘I don’t feel inclined to work’; ‘I wish to be left alone.’
Here’s to it, phr. (common).—An obscene toast. See It, sense 2.