| 单词 | as warm as toast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas warm (hot, etc.) as toast b. As the type of what is hot or dry, as warm (hot, etc.) as toast. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [phrase] > hot or warm as warm (hot, etc.) as toast1546 the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [phrase] as warm (hot, etc.) as toast1842 c1430 : see above. ] 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. i. sig. Fiiiv Loue had appeerd in hym to her alwaie Hotte as a toste. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Panatagr. Prognost. 246 Keep your selves as hot as Toasts, d'ye hear? 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 83 The small brown Moorland bird, as dry as a toast. 1855 A. S. Stephens Old Homestead i. 16 Every thing nice and warm as toast. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. i. 21 It keeps this end of the valley as warm as a toast. < as lemmas |
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