english
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Phrase(s): no matter how you slice it Fig. no matter what your perspective is; no matter how you try to portray something. • No matter how you slice it, the results of the meeting present all sorts of problems for the office staff.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Regardless of how one views something, as in No matter how you slice it, he's still guilty of perjury. This expression uses slice in the sense of "cut apart." [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]
American Heritage Idioms