Three stemmed glasses, one tipped sideways, rest on a round gold-edged mirror against pale peach.

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Nick Mercer

Here's to the husbands who won you, the losers who lost you, and the lucky bastards who've yet to meet you.

— The Wedding Date ‧ 2005

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a toast with a cheeky three-part structure: the ones who won someone over, the ones who blew it, and the ones still to come. It celebrates the person being toasted by ranking everyone else, with affectionate insults thrown in for good measure.

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