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Vincent Ding Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Toast

0I like eating toast, but that has no concern with my query today05002br
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00if at a banquet someone stands up with a cup of wine in his hand and says to all the others "to the Queen", is here "to the queen" what we call a toast? 010id1
  

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0 Hi Vincent, 02br 00Yes, it is. 02br 00The traditional verb is 'He proposed a toast', although you could use other verbs, like 'make'. 02br 00Clive 02br 02br 00(wine usually goes in a glass) 0-

— Clive

  • 0 Hi Vincent, 02br 00Yes, it is.
  • 02br 00The traditional verb is 'He proposed a toast', although you could use other verbs, like 'make'.
  • 02br 00Clive 02br 02br 00(wine usually goes in a glass) 0-
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0 Hi Vincent, 02br
00Yes, it is. 02br
00The traditional verb is 'He proposed a toast', although you could use other verbs, like 'make'. 02br
00Clive 02br
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00(wine usually goes in a glass) 0-
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0 01b00dictionary.com02b00 has: 01blockquote
00toast2 n. 12br
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10 --1. The act of raising a glass and drinking in honor of or to the health of a person or thing. 12br
10 --2. A proposal to drink to someone or something or a speech given before the taking of
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0 Etymology of "toast (n.)" 02br
00"a call to drink to someone's health," 1700 (but said by Steele, 1709, to date to the reign of Charles II), originally referring to the beautiful or popular woman whose health is proposed and drunk, from the use of spiced toast to flavor drink, the lady regarded as figuratively adding piquancy to the wine in which her health was drunk. 02br
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0 Hi guys, 02br
00I vaguely remembered this anecdote from reading it years ago, but I had to google to find these details:- 02br
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00In the days of Charles II and earlier it was the custom to put pieces of toast into tankards of beer in order to improve the flavour. According to a story told in the Tatler, a celebrated beauty of the time was bathin
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0 here's another explanation: 02br
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00THE ORIGIN OF THE TOAST 02br
00The term originates from the sixteenth century when a small piece of bread would be placed in a goblet of wine, which would be passed from guest to guest until it reached the person being honoured who would drain the goblet and eat the morsel of bread in the bottom. 02br
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0 Clive and Abbie 02br
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00Thank you for the nice tips. I'd like to have a glass of the water in which Ms Abbie has bathed. Abbie, could you send me some by e-cargo? 02br
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00paco 0-
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0Sounds like an affront to good wine to me-- I'd hate to find a crust of bread floating in my claret. 0-
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0 A little twist of the thread: 02br
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00Years ago, I heard "She is toast," meaning something negative about her. 02br
00I forgot specifically what it means. Would you please refresh my memory, MM? 0-
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00I'd like to have a glass of the water in which Ms Abbie has bathed12blockquote
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00Not after I've beein digging my garden you wouldn't, Paco. I would be gritty and full of mud. 05002br
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00"She is toast,"12blockquote
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00I think it
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0 Thanks, abbie. 02br
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00My memory is refreshed! 0-
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