toast
to be dead, finished
TRANSLATION
erledigt sein
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Things have gotten so bad that some critics think that Handspring might be TOAST. And let's also say that Nokia's not exactly feeling the heat just yet."
(Stewart Alsop in Fortune, June 10th, 2002)
(Stewart Alsop in Fortune, June 10th, 2002)
Did you
know?
Did you know?
To "feel the heat" means to feel the pressure of something. Now just imagine the heat getting so intense that the object is destroyed, this is where the term "to be toast" comes from.
To "feel the heat" means to feel the pressure of something. Now just imagine the heat getting so intense that the object is destroyed, this is where the term "to be toast" comes from.
