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 • Feb. 9, 2025

Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen are as warm as toast, but as polite as priests.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2010

And once we get to the farm, we will be warm as toast, and we shall have all the food we can eat.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

So she had bowled off to Fort Ann with a heart as warm as toast, and a tongue that was stinging hot.

From Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Caine, Hall, Sir