TIL that the earliest instance of referring to someone as "toast" to mean doomed was a line that Bill Murray ad-libbed in Ghostbusters
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/bill-murray-ghostbusters-toast.html
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/bill-murray-ghostbusters-toast.html
6 Comments
WidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
Absolutely not true. We used that phrase as kids in the 60s.
teft@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Are you telling me someone would just...lie? On the internet?
Ketchup@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 3y
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
djsaskdja@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 3y
Did you document and publish your use of the phrase?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 3y
If only they had smart phones back then, to have a record of teenage slang.