clinking glasses
Cheers made audible
Clinking glasses is the act of touching drinking glasses together, typically before taking the first sip of an alcoholic beverage.
The gesture accompanies a toast and signals shared celebration or goodwill: They raised their champagne flutes, clinking glasses to the new year.
The phrase can also refer to the sound itself—the bright, ringing contact of glass on glass that marks festive occasions.
- toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
- cheersCasual toast or farewell
- champagneEffervescent celebratory wine
- champagne flutesTall narrow wine glasses
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
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- party traditionschampagne toast, toasts, toasting, cake cutting, gift opening
- drinkingbooze, liquor, guzzling, gulping, chugging
- customscustoms, customs clearance, wedding custom, customs declaration, burial custom
- mannersetiquette, manners, polite, rude, politeness
- dining occasionsbanquet, feast, potluck, picnic, brunch
- social normsnorms, greeting, mores, handshake, custom
clinking glassesmoment of silence
Brief silent tribute
pouring one out · bowing heads · taps · wake · eulogy
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