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TIL that the earliest instance of referring to someone as "toast" to mean doomed was a line that Bill Murray ad-libbed in Ghostbusters

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TIL that the earliest instance of referring to someone as "toast" to mean doomed was a line that Bill Murray ad-libbed in Ghostbusters - LemmyWorld

Jun 27, 2023 at 11:07pmWeb
Show threadWidowsFavoriteSonJun 27, 2023
Absolutely not true. We used that phrase as kids in the 60s.
Show threaddjsaskdjaJul 10, 2023
Did you document and publish your use or the phrase?
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Jul 10, 2023
If only they had smart phones back then, to have a record of teenage slang.
Show threadKetchupJul 10, 2023
It is hard to believe it’s not been around longer. Waiting for the Oxford English professor to show us when Shakespeare first used it