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many happy returns
Idioms and Phrases
Also, many happy returns of the day . Happy birthday and many more of them, as in I came by to wish you many happy returns . This expression was first recorded in a letter of 1779 where the writer meant “Happy New Year,” but the present meaning has persisted since the second half of the 1800s.Example Sentences
Across the top of the large mirror he saw "Welcome," in letters of evergreen, and a chorus of "Many happy returns!"
Many happy returns of the day to you—(it was the first of the new year)—I never spent so miserable a one.
I suppose we are both getting too old to care about being wished many happy returns of the day.
I am wishing Margaret many happy returns of this day, and am making a picture of you all keeping the little fte.
I have a chance of sending this to England to be posted, so I must send you a line to wish you many happy returns of the day.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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