cheers Idiom, Proverb

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give three cheers for someone

give praise or approval for someone who has done well The crowd gave three cheers for the team after they won the final game.

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cheers

1. (interj) thank you!, an expression of gratitude
2. goodbye!, a parting salutation

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three cheers for

three cheers for
Good for, hurrah for, congratulations to, as in Three cheers for our mayor! Hip, hip, hooray! Why one should shout one's encouragement or approbation three times rather than two or four is unclear. A shouted cheer presumably originated as a nautical practice, if we are to believe Daniel Defoe in Captain Singleton (1720): “We gave them a cheer, as the seamen call it.” Three cheers was first recorded in 1751. The term is also used sarcastically, when one is not really offering congratulations, as in So you finally passed; well, three cheers for you.