Hypersapien@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoTIL that the earliest instance of referring to someone as "toast" to mean doomed was a line that Bill Murray ad-libbed in Ghostbusterswww.giantfreakinrobot.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down12
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the earliest instance of referring to someone as "toast" to mean doomed was a line that Bill Murray ad-libbed in Ghostbusterswww.giantfreakinrobot.comHypersapien@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareWidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoAbsolutely not true. We used that phrase as kids in the 60s.
minus-squaredjsaskdja@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoDid you document and publish your use of the phrase?
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoIf only they had smart phones back then, to have a record of teenage slang.
minus-squareKetchup@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoIt is hard to believe it’s not been around longer. Waiting for the Oxford English professor to show us when Shakespeare first used it
Absolutely not true. We used that phrase as kids in the 60s.
Did you document and publish your use of the phrase?
If only they had smart phones back then, to have a record of teenage slang.
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