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January 16, 2021 08:00
Word story – warm as toast

Word story – warm as toast

warm as toast (phrase) – warm and comfortable.
Definition – Macmillan Dictionary

Когда на улице ветрено и холодно, хочется тепла и уюта. Забраться под теплый плед, устроиться перед камином, ну или устроиться перед телевизором с кружкой горячего чая или какао. В английском языке для теплых и уютных вещей и моментов, которые вызывают положительные эмоции и дарят приятные ощущения, существует идиома (as) warm as toast.

Фраза warm as toast, которая переводится на русский язык «очень теплый и уютный» впервые была использована в английской газете The Berkshire Chronicle. В публикации приводился список новых на тот момент сравнений.

As blind as a bat—as deaf as a post,
As cool as a cucumber—warm as a toast;
As flat as a flounder—as round as a ball,
As blunt as a hammer—as sharp as an awl;
The Berkshire Chronicle, 10 December 1825

Но возникла эта идиома гораздо раньше, в первой половине 15 века, хотя тогда фраза звучала as hot as toast. Один из первых примеров использования фразы был найден в поваренной книге, изданной в 1430 году.
Также идиому можно найти в произведении английского поэта и драматурга Джона Хейвуда.

Where loue had appeerd in hym to her alwaie
Hotte as a toste, it grew cold as a kaie [= key].

Примеры употребления фразы warm as toast

Scrunched down, warm as toast, between the cookstove and the woodbox, I couldn't see that getting something for nothing could be all that bad.
W. P. Kinsella Box Socials, 1991
An audience who have been battling with the challenge of how to look fashion-week-appropriate in the freezing cold arrived, colder than ever, to find themselves in a room as warm as toast, with three chandeliers the size of cart wheels lending a soft, candlelit glow to the whitewashed wood catwalk.
The Guardian, 19 February 2015
These boots will give a good grip on wet decks and worn with woollen thermal or neoprene socks will keep your feet as warm as toast.
Oxford English Dictionary
Тема: Grammar & Vocabulary       Теги: Wordstory, Etymology

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