burnt toast
Overdone breakfast slice
Burnt toast is bread that has been toasted too long, resulting in blackened, bitter, often smoking slices.
The phrase serves as a stand-in for minor domestic failures or morning mishaps: The smoke alarm went off—just burnt toast.
Something described as burnt toast is ruined or finished: After that scandal, his career was burnt toast.
- charredBurned until black
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
- smoke alarmAirborne combustion sensor
- fire hazardCombustion danger source
- blackenedDarkened by burning
black as coal · crispy · acrid · breakfast · scrape · carbon · kitchen · smell · ruined · overdone · too far gone · crunchy · butter · crumbs · alarm · distracted · morning · jam
- bitter thingsbitter melon, quinine, tonic water, black coffee, espresso
- burntcharred, scorched, singed, blackened, char
- cooking mistakesundercooked, overcooked, scorched, dry turkey, tough steak
- morning problemsoversleeping, fatigue, grogginess, bed head, bad breath
- home economics humorleftovers, dish duty, meal prep, kitchen gadgets
- kitchen smellsbacon, fresh bread, fried chicken, roast chicken, grilled steak