Cooked

Peter Richardson prichard at LINFIELD.EDU
Fri Sep 13 17:53:38 UTC 2002


Would this be related to _toast_?

Peter R.

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Michael Quinion wrote:

> I'm writing a piece about the slang term "cooked" - in the sense of
> exhausted, tired out, done in. Can anybody tell me whether it is
> currently much known in North America? (Researching it online is

> sense "be in an inescapably bad situation". Obviously related, but
> no cigar.



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