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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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