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(as) warm as toast (as) warm as toastComfortably and cozily warm, especially when the weather outside is very cold. I have such fond childhood memories of wintertime, coming in from the snow and getting warm as toast by the fire. I've got the heater on a timer, so the house should be as warm as toast by the time we get home.See also: toast, warm*warm as toastvery warm and cozy. (*Also: as ~.) The baby will be warm as toast in that blanket. We were as warm as toast by the side of the fire.See also: toast, warmwarm as toastComfortably warm, as in It was freezing outside, but we were warm as toast in front of the fire. Despite the British custom of serving toasted bread in a rack that rapidly cools it, this idiom originated in England, at first as hot as toast (c. 1430) and by the mid-1800s in its present form. See also: toast, warmwarm as toast pleasantly warm. 1991 W. P. Kinsella Box Socials Scrunched down, warm as toast, between the cookstove and the woodbox, I couldn't see that getting something for nothing could be all that bad. See also: toast, warm(as) warm as ˈtoast pleasantly warm compared to the cold air outside etc: I’ll light the fire and we’ll soon be as warm as toast in here.See also: toast, warm |