clink glasses

Or maybe the appetizers are the whole of it, a nice chance to clink glasses with the neighbors or some old friends passing through town.

The Democratic and Republican pour two fingers each, then clink glasses.

Sailors of old wouldn’t clink glasses while toasting at all, as the sound could awaken the souls of the drowned, and the first toast of a voyage would often be tossed to the waves in tribute to the god of the sea.

In her time, congressmen with decidedly different politics might still clink glasses at a Georgetown reception and hash out a deal over canapés.

I always joke that I go to Paris to have my cheeks kissed; I go to Rome to pack into the piazza and have my gelato and go up the Passeggiata, with all those generations going up pedestrian boulevards; and I go to the pubs in Ireland to sit at the bar and clink glasses with people who really believe strangers are just friends who’ve yet to meet.