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I had to look up "Susan Collins is toast."

Susan Collins is toast

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 26, 2019

I found this:



Thanks, Google. Thanks, Jennifer Rubin.

The use of "toast" to mean "A person or thing that is defunct, dead, finished, in serious trouble, etc." originated — if I am to believe the Oxford English Dictionary — with "Ghostbusters"!

1983 D. Aykroyd & H. Ramis Ghostbusters (film script, third draft) 123 Venkman..: Okay. That's it! I'm gonna turn this guy into toast.

As the OED explains with exquisite pedantry:

The lines in quot. 1983 do not in fact appear in the U.S. film Ghostbusters as released in 1985, since a considerable amount of the dialogue is ad-libbed. The actual words spoken by Venkman (played by Bill Murray) as he prepares to fire a laser-type weapon, are, ‘This chick is toast’; this is probably the origin of the proleptic construction which has gained particular currency.

"Proleptic use" means in phrases like "You're toast," "I'm toast," and "Susan Collins is toast."

I still don't know — and don't really care — what happened to Susan Collins.

ADDED: It was only on publishing this post that I saw that Rubin was giving a jocose response to "Endless Jeopardy." There's no new news about Collins. Just a dumb joke.

Susan Collins is toast

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 26, 2019

I found this:



Thanks, Google. Thanks, Jennifer Rubin.

The use of "toast" to mean "A person or thing that is defunct, dead, finished, in serious trouble, etc." originated — if I am to believe the Oxford English Dictionary — with "Ghostbusters"!

1983 D. Aykroyd & H. Ramis Ghostbusters (film script,

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third draft) 123 Venkman..: Okay. That's it! I'm gonna turn this guy into toast. As the OED explains with exquisite pedantry:

The lines in quot. 1983 do not in fact appear in the U.S. film Ghostbusters as released in 1985, since a considerable amount of the dialogue is ad-libbed. The actual words spoken by Venkman (played by Bill Murray) as he prepares to fire a laser-type weapon, are, ‘This chick is toast’; this is probably the origin of the proleptic construction which has gained particular currency.

"Proleptic use" means in phrases like "You're toast," "I'm toast," and "Susan Collins is toast."

I still don't know — and don't really care — what happened to Susan Collins.

ADDED: It was only on publishing this post that I saw that Rubin was giving a jocose response to "Endless Jeopardy." There's no new news about Collins. Just a dumb joke.

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