I'm toast

Reader's Digest 7/8月合併号のLaughter the Best Medicinからの引用です。

When a man is confronted on the street by a tough-looking goon, he murmurs to himself, "I'm toast."
Just then, a ray of light breaks forth from the sky and a voice booms out, "No, you are not toast. Pick up the brick in front of you and bring it down on his head."
Right after the picks up the brick and knocks out the hoodlum, a hundred gun-, nkife- and chain-toting gang members appear, glaring at him angrily.
The voice booms out again. "OK ...now you're toast!"
引用文最後に出てきた " toast" は 十年前にも 5/20/2008 取り上げています。