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Famous for fifteen minutes, adored by everyone who hasn't met you yet.
means The person everyone is currently celebrating, praising, and wanting to be seen with — the social favorite of the moment.
from From the old custom of literally toasting someone's health at a gathering — raising a glass in their name, sometimes dunking actual spiced toast in the wine to flavor it. By the 1700s, 'the toast' had come to mean the person (often a beautiful or popular woman) whose name was proposed as the toast of the evening — the one everyone wanted to drink to. 'Toast of the town' widened that from one dinner party to an entire city's infatuation.
- origin
- drinks were literally raised in your honor
- etymology
- 18th century spiced toast flavored drinks, hence the toast
- shelf life
- usually expires faster than actual toast
- modern version
- viral for a week, forgotten by Tuesday