Toast

I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.

This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly.

Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen.

At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.

He was the toast of high society.

Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down.

According to the OED, this is a figurative application of sense 1 dating to 1674. It began as an epithet for a lady being supposed to flavour a bumper like a spiced toast placed in that drink. (In this context, a bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim)

The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.

to become/be toast

If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!

You are going to be toast if you don't submit your school project on time.

This chick is toast!

With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.

Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.

We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.

Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.

We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.

You all have achieved so much together thus far, so I think that deserves a toast! Let's toast!

I toasted my feet by the fire.

Toasting over a record does more than change the way that record is perceived by the audience: it creates a new piece of music with joint creative authorship, although the law does not support this characterization.