like shit on toast
- idiom
- Offensive
:
una mierda
- The movie was like shit on toast—I couldn't believe how terrible it was.
Examples
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The service at that restaurant was like shit on toast!
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His presentation came off like shit on toast compared to the others.
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Honestly, the food tasted like shit on toast and I couldn't finish it.
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This movie is like shit on toast compared to the first one.
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The food tasted like shit on toast, and I left the restaurant dissatisfied.
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Her report was like shit on toast next to the well-researched presentations from her classmates.
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After watching the film, I can honestly say it was like shit on toast—a total waste of my time.
Synonyms
4
8.2
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
1
8.4
Very bad and disappointing to experience
1
7.0
Poor quality and disappointing
1
8.8
Not as good as expected and a bit upsetting
1
9.2
An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
A very bad taste or smell that makes you want to spit
Not as good as expected or needed
A small, disappointing thing that does not help enough
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase creates a vivid, disgusting comparison using the literal meanings of 'shit' and 'toast', so a learner who knows the words can infer a strong negative evaluation (very unpleasant/poor quality) from the constituents. However, its colloquial/vulgar register and the exact pragmatic force and usage are not fully predictable from the parts alone, so comprehension is partial rather than fully compositional.
Etymology
The idiom like shit on toast comes from a gross image: imagine someone putting shit on toast, turning what should be tasty into something disgusting. So people use it to say something is 'very bad' or 'extremely disappointing'.