"have someone on toast" meaning in English

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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having someone on toast",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone on toast",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone on toast",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Michael Bowen, Service Dress Blues: A Rep & Melissa Pennyworth Mystery, page 102:",
          "text": "Every crime commentator on cable news will have him on toast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gavin Lyall, The Wrong Side of the Sky:",
          "text": "If he'd waited ten seconds until I was on the lighted porch, he'd have had me on toast.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have somebody in one's power, or in a compromising or helpless position."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "compromising",
          "compromising"
        ],
        [
          "helpless",
          "helpless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic) To have somebody in one's power, or in a compromising or helpless position."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "have someone by the short hairs § Synonyms"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
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  "word": "have someone on toast"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has someone on toast",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having someone on toast",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone on toast",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone on toast",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English multiword terms",
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        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Michael Bowen, Service Dress Blues: A Rep & Melissa Pennyworth Mystery, page 102:",
          "text": "Every crime commentator on cable news will have him on toast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gavin Lyall, The Wrong Side of the Sky:",
          "text": "If he'd waited ten seconds until I was on the lighted porch, he'd have had me on toast.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have somebody in one's power, or in a compromising or helpless position."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "compromising",
          "compromising"
        ],
        [
          "helpless",
          "helpless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic) To have somebody in one's power, or in a compromising or helpless position."
      ],
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        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "have someone by the short hairs § Synonyms"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have someone on toast"
}