any way one slices it
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps a reference to a food item such as a cake or a sausage looking the same on the inside no matter how it is sliced.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛni‿weɪ wʌn ˈslaɪsɪz‿ɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɛni‿weɪ wʌn ˈslaɪsəz‿ət/
Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: any way one slic‧es it
Phrase
- (chiefly US, informal) From any perspective; in every case.
- Synonyms: however one slices it, no matter how one slices it, no matter how one looks at it, whichever way one slices it
- Any way you slice it, we have to get out of here and we have to take him with us.
- 1998, Bill Pronzini, Boobytrap, Speaking Volumes, →ISBN:
- Back inside I thought it all over carefully, weighing my options. Not good, any way you sliced it.
- 2013, William F. Zak, A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 74:
- Any way one slices it, his dissection of human disease is not a pretty sight.
- 2018, Derek Haas, The Way I Die: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- Any way I slice it, that's going to take some time. Just flying there and back is going to eat up days.
Translations
from any perspective; in every case
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See also
Further reading
- “no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it, phrase” under “slice, v.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2022. - “any way you slice it”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “any way you slice it” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “any way you slice it” (US) / “any way you slice it” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “any way you slice it”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “no matter how you slice it”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
