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warm as toast



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Idioms and Phrases

Comfortably warm, as in It was freezing outside, but we were warm as toast in front of the fire . Despite the British custom of serving toasted bread in a rack that rapidly cools it, this idiom originated in England, at first as hot as toast (c. 1430) and by the mid-1800s in its present form.
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Example Sentences

"I'm as warm as toast and I keep on the fire all night."

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“Bet they were warm as toast and tight as drums down there!â€

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Mrs Hicks continued: "I actually got down on the floor on my knees. First of all I hugged Victoria. "She was quite cold and then I hugged Sarah and Sarah was warm as toast - and that didn't seem right.

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Mrs Hicks told the jury that when she and the girls' father Trevor identified them, Sarah was "warm as toast".

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And I was the one who’d been out in the snow: she looked warm as toast.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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