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Here's looking at you.

Here's looking at you.

위 표현에 대해 대다수가 "건배"라는 의미라고 설명한다.

영화 Casablanca에서 주인공 "험프리 보갓"이 맥주잔을 들면서 Here's looking at you kid.라고 한 말에서

이젠 "자! 건배"라는 뜻이 생겨난 것이니 그 의미는 알 필요는 없다고 한다.

그러나 원래의 의미는 직역 그대로  "이곳이 너(들)를 바라보고 있다."라고 하면서 toast를 하면서 생긴 말이다.

즉  here가 의인화된 것이다.  다음의 대화가 그 유래에 대해 말하고 있다.

무조건 남의 말에 따라 갈 것이 아니라 주관을 가지고 유래를 알아 보는 것도 중요하다.

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: hi,

: : I'm wondering about the orgin of the phrase "here's looking at you, kid", which is a famous line by Hamphry Bogart in a popular film, "Casablanca".

: : In japan, the line is translated into Japanese like "Cheers to your eyes".
: : And almost all people in Japan thinks the phrase "here's looking..." is created for the film based on English common phrases used in drinking toast like "Here is luck to you" or "here is a health to you".
: : But recently, I heard in a Casablanca DVD commentary, that the line is a common phrase used in a card(porker) game playing.
: : Is this true?

: : P.S. I'm Japanese, and English-learner.So if any mistakes in my writing, please ignore it...

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In Reply to: Origin of "Here's looking at you"? posted by hiro on October 21, 2003
This phrase is actually a toast that originated around the fights that occurred in the pubs (of old). It was commonplace for a patron to wait until his adversary was drinking from their stein of ale (and their vision was therefore blocked by the stein) to attack ... it bettered their odds of success. Tis led to the development of the glass-bottomed stein in which the drinker could keep the other patrons in their vision even when drinking.
Thus came the toast "Here's looking at you"
* stein: 《美》 (도자기로 만든) 맥주잔, 조끼.
* ale:  에일(맥주의 일종으로 알코올 도수 6-8도 내외)
* patron : 고객, 보호자

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Thank you for your explanation!

So, the phrase had been used before Casablanca.
(and how to use the phrase was quite unique in the film, I mean, for the expression of love...)

By the way, most of japanese thinks the phrase is the film's totaly original one. But, in fact, the translation into Japanese(just like "cheers to your eyes", if directly re-translated into English) was purely orignal. And as a japanese pharase, this is too good to be true, which means the credit would go to the translator, not the original writer for Casablanca...