| 单词 | you're toast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyou're (also I'm, we're, etc.) toast colloquial (originally U.S.). A person or thing that is defunct, dead, finished, in serious trouble, etc. Frequently in proleptic use, esp. in you're (also I'm, we're, etc.) toast: you (I, we, etc.) will soon be dead, in trouble, etc. Cf. history n.The lines in quot. 1983 do not in fact appear in the U.S. film Ghostbusters as released in 1985, since a considerable amount of the dialogue is ad-libbed. The actual words spoken by Venkman (played by Bill Murray) as he prepares to fire a laser-type weapon, are, ‘This chick is toast’; this is probably the origin of the proleptic construction which has gained particular currency. ΚΠ 1983 D. Aykroyd & H. Ramis Ghostbusters (film script, third draft) 123 Venkman..: Okay. That's it! I'm gonna turn this guy into toast. 1985 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald 5 May b2/2 Shake, Fedya..because you're toast! 1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight (1990) xxiv. 264/1 I'm calling my banker in the Caymans and having him read the balance in my account. If it's not heavier by twenty-five, you're toast. 1991 Sports Illustr. 8 Apr. 87/2 Soon their relationship was toast. He wanted out. 1994 A. Heckerling Clueless (film script, first shooting draft) (O.E.D. Archive) Green Revised Pages 11 Cher. You get your report card? Dionne... Yeah, I'm toast, you'll never see me out of the house again. 2002 Mojo Feb. 62/1 Brian at that time was basically a hermit and, to put it mildly, toast. < as lemmas |
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