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Hoarse e-Books on Nostr: nprofile1q…0cg79 Relatedly, I learned not long ago that “toast” in the sense ...

Relatedly, I learned not long ago that “toast” in the sense “done for, doomed” stems from Bill Murray’s line in “Ghostbusters.”

Interestingly, his ad lib (“This chick is toast”) is proleptic, i.e., describing as a present fact something that has not yet occurred.

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/05/toast.html