Definition of Champagne to our real friends, real pain to our sham friends

Champagne to our real friends, real pain to our sham friends

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• champagne to our real friends, real pain to our sham friends
  
  This is an Irish toast regarding frenemy relationships.
  
  Compare to frenemy.
  
  The old man offered a toast, "here's to champagne to our real friends, real pain to our sham friends

  Last edited on Jan 21 2017. Submitted by Dr. P.D. Fisher on Jan 21 2017.

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Other terms relating to 'champagne':
champagne	Definitions include: excellent, outstanding, with an implication of glamour, verve, of doing things with a flourish.
champagne problem	Definitions include: a problem that, in reality, demonstrates one's good fortune.
champers	Definitions include: Champagne.
Other terms relating to 'friend':
bbff	Definitions include: acronym for "best buddy friend forever".
bench friend	Definitions include: Those people you only go to for unconditional and compassionate support.
BFF	Definitions include: acronym for "best friend(s) forever".
BFFE	Definitions include: acronym for "best friend forever" or "best friends forever".
BFFL	Definitions include: acronym for "best friend(s) for life".
BFFWEOAGSA	Definitions include: acronym for "best friends forever who eat out and go shopping a lot".
cut friends	Definitions include: Also friends for cut.
drop some friends off at the lake	Definitions include: to go to the bathroom, to defecate.
drop some friends off at the pool	Definitions include: to defecate.
FOAF	Definitions include: acronym for "friend of a friend".
friend	Definitions include: on a social networking website, to add someone to one's list of friends.
friend crush	Definitions include: The feeling of really wanting to befriend a stranger or acquaintance.
friends for cut	Definitions include: friends only for the purpose of having intercourse.
friends with benefits	Definitions include: friends who have sex (or other sexual contact) with each other.
friend with benefits	Definitions include: close companions whose friendship may contain romantic or sexual interest without an official commitment.
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Other terms relating to 'our':
get our backs dirty	Definitions include: to fist fight.
I for one welcome our new 'X' overlords	Definitions include: a comment that usually serves no other purpose above telling listeners (or more often: readers) that the speaker (writer) is in the technological "in group".
Other terms relating to 'pain':
feel no pain	Definitions include: being very drunk.
pain	Definitions include: a bother.
pain in (one's) *ss	Definitions include: a nuisance.
pain in the arse	Definitions include: a nuisance.
pain in the *ss	Definitions include: a nuisance.
pain in the butt	Definitions include: a nuisance.
pain in the neck	Definitions include: a nuisance.
pain point	Definitions include: something displeasurable about a product.
PITA	Definitions include: acronym of "pain in the ass."
Other terms relating to 'real':
be real	Definitions include: to act as oneself - to not put on a facade.
fo rizzal	Definitions include: "for real".
forizzle	Definitions include: "for real".
for real	Definitions include: "Are you telling me the truth?" or "I'm telling you the truth."
for reals	Definitions include: "for real", i.e. "seriously".
for real though	Definitions include: "for real though", i.e. "seriously though".
get real.	Definitions include: statement of disbelief.
IRL	Definitions include: acronym for "in real life".
ITRW	Definitions include: acronym for "in the real world".
keep it on the real	Definitions include: to tell the truth about something.
keep it real	Definitions include: to stay true to one's self; to resist the temptation to be fake.
on the real	Definitions include: truthful, honest.
on the reals	Definitions include: Alternate form of on the real.
real	Definitions include: acting true to one's self.
real deal, the	Definitions include: something legitimate.
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Other terms relating to 'sham':
ro-sham-bo	Definitions include: a competition employed to determine the ownership of an object when ownership is in dispute.
sham	Definitions include: fake.
Other terms relating to 'to':
3 sheets to the wind	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
9 to 5	Definitions include: See nine to five.
add fuel to the fire	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
add insult to injury	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
all your base are belong to us	Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
*ss-to-mouth	Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
back to (one's) roots	Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
back to square one	Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
balls to the wall	Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
beat all to hell	Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
beat to the punch	Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
be greek to	Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
be up to	Definitions include: to do.
bigger fish to fry	Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
blow to hell	Definitions include: to kill or destroy.
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