toast
(toʊst )
Word forms: toasts , toasting , toasted
1. uncountable noun A2
Toast is bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature.
...a piece of toast.
2. verb B2 cook
When you toast something such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp.
Toast the bread lightly on both sides. [VERB noun]
...a toasted sandwich. [VERB-ed]
Synonyms: brown, grill, crisp, roast
3. countable noun
When you drink a toast to someone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success.
The host drank a toast to each guest in turn. [+ to]
At the end of the meal Burgoyne was asked to propose a toast.
4. verb
When you toast someone or something, you drink a toast to them.
Party officials and generals toasted his health. [VERB noun]
They toasted her in champagne. [V n in/with n]
Synonyms: drink to, honour, pledge to, salute
5. singular noun
If someone is the toast of a place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well.
She was the toast of Paris. [+ of]
Synonyms: favourite, celebrity, darling, talk
6. be toast phrase [VERB inflects]
If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed. [informal]
They know how to control access to the media. And if you don't play the game, you're toast.
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Quotations:
Here's tae us; wha's like us?
Gey few, and they're a' deid
Gey few, and they're a' deid
Idioms:
someone is toast [informal]
said to mean that someone is no longer important or powerful, or that their position is under threat
`Hit your sales targets next year or you're toast,' my manager told me.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Translations:
Chinese: 烤面包片, 祝酒, 为…举杯祝酒
Japanese: トースト grilled bread , 乾杯 tribute , ～のために乾杯する