the toast of
idiom
: a person who is very popular in (a particular place) or among (a particular group of people)
After she won the championship, she was the toast of the town.
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The Brutalist was the toast of the Lido, receiving rapturous reviews and winning Corbet the Silver Lion Best Director prize.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2024
Not far behind them came Adrien Brody—the toast of this year’s festival thanks to his powerful turn in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist—arriving arm in arm with his partner, Georgina Chapman.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
May signs up for the facial modification in part so that her family can afford a swoony, unthinkable extravagance: a visit to the Botanical Garden, a walled nature park that is the toast of rich-person Instagram.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
The band became the toast of the still-growing hair metal scene, opening for like-minded acts such as Whitesnake, Dokken and David Lee Roth’s solo band.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2024
Not far behind them came Adrien Brody—the toast of this year’s festival thanks to his powerful turn in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist—arriving arm in arm with his partner, Georgina Chapman.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
May signs up for the facial modification in part so that her family can afford a swoony, unthinkable extravagance: a visit to the Botanical Garden, a walled nature park that is the toast of rich-person Instagram.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
The band became the toast of the still-growing hair metal scene, opening for like-minded acts such as Whitesnake, Dokken and David Lee Roth’s solo band.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
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