Brewer's: Take Tea with Him

(I), i.e. I floor my adversary by winning every rubber. If he beats me in billiards, he “has me on toast.” (Indian slang.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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