Many Many happy returns of the day means that all the happiness

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Many Many happy returns of the day means that all the happiness should return that have long gone from your life.

Please check my sentence. Have I interpreted it correctly?
 
Not at all. If you'd taken thirty seconds to Google "etymology of many happy returns", you'd have found the answer. Here's the Wikipedia article on it.
 
@tufguy It seems that you have a unique interpretation of that one.
 
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Not at all. If you'd taken thirty seconds to Google "etymology of many happy returns", you'd have found the answer. Here's the Wikipedia article on it.
Okay, got it now. How about my sentences?
 
Perhaps:

"Many many happy returns of the day" means that you should get back all the happiness that you lost.

I guess that's what you mean to say. (Of course, that's inaccurate.)
 
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