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be burnt to a crisp
To be or have been significantly burned, as by fire or the sun. The variant spelling "burned" is also commonly used in the headword. If you don't get the bread out of the oven now, it will be burnt to a crisp! I fell asleep on the beach, and now I'm burnt to a crisp.
burn something to a crisp
to burn something totally or very badly. The cook burned the meat to a crisp.
burn something to a crisp
to burn something very badly He burned the sausages to a crisp. I played a little golf yesterday and my neck got burned to a crisp.
be burnt to a crisp
(mainly British) also be burned to a crisp (mainly American) to be very burnt By the time I remembered the pizza was in the oven, it was burnt to a crisp.
burn to a cinder
Also, burn to a crisp. Destroy by fire; overcook. For example, If I stay in the sun too long, I'll be burnt to a cinder, or He's an awful cook-dinner was burnt to a crisp. Although both expressions can be used literally, they also function as hyperbole, as in the examples.
crisp
mod. drug intoxicated. (Akin to fried. Compare to toasted.) Man, is he crisp!