“Earth will be toast, but Pluto will be balmy and brimming with the same sorts of complex organic compounds that existed when life first evolved on our own planet.”
“As the deadly predator constantly learns more about you to track you successfully, this game ensures that you always stay on the move and also be as inventive as possible while hiding or journeying through an area – because, if the Alien spots you, you’re toast!”
“If it gets as high as they’re saying, these trailers are going to be toast”
“Viewers, who adored the handsome character, have refused to accept he’s toast.”
“Things need to happen in the next seven days or otherwise we, and other consultancies, will be toast.”
Evan Morris states in his blog, The Word Detective, that the first use of toast in this context was in the 1985 film Ghostbusters: as Bill Murray prepares to fire his anti-protoplasm gun, he shouts, “this chick is toast.”
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