warm as toast

Idioms  

1. 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."

From BBC

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

From Literature

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.

From BBC

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

From BBC

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

From Literature