The Meaning of Happy Belated Birthday.

Why do you say many happy returns. The full version of this expression is. Often someone will say I wish you many happy returns and as others have said it simply means I hope youll have many more happy birthdays still to come in the future. Many happy returns of the day is a greeting you extend to someone on their birthday wishing they will live to celebrate many more birthdays to come.

Of course I am. The first explanation implies we are wishing that their birthday will return many more times - in other words May you live long. Then we say and many happy returns of the day which has the meaning explained above.

Said to mean Happy birthday 2. Since the 18th century this has been used as a salutation to offer the hope that a happy day being marked would recur many more times. Because you conceive of time as a stream a change within you there is something which is changeless.

Said to mean Happy birthday. Prior to the mid 19th century it. 4 To enhance sustainability.

Therefore many happy returns of the day would be a wishing a person a rewarding day full of happiness. If you wrote the phrase happy belated birthday but changed the word belated to its synonym late youd get happy late birthday. Three in four shoppers say returns are the most painful part of buying online and 87 wont shop ever again after a painful returns experience with a retailer.

To express an idea feeling thought etc using words Im so tired she said. It is now primarily used by some on birthdays. The phrase is shortened from the sentiment many happy returns of the day which has been a greeting used since the 1700s.