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have someone on toast en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To have somebody in one's power, or in a compromising or helpless position.
    • Every crime commentator on cable news will have him on toast. 2011, Michael Bowen, Service Dress Blues: A Rep & Melissa Pennyworth Mystery, page 102:
    • If he'd waited ten seconds until I was on the lighted porch, he'd have had me on toast. 2013, Gavin Lyall, The Wrong Side of the Sky:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
had someone on toast Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
had someone on toast Tense=Past lexicographic
having someone on toast Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
has someone on toast Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

have someone by the short hairs § Synonyms