| 单词 | no matter how you slice it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasno matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it c. In colloquial phrase no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it: however you look at it. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase] > beyond question (as) sure as ——a1413 if your cap be of wool1546 as sure as a club1584 (as) sure as a guna1640 (as) sure as God made little apples1796 you can gamble on that1862 no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it1936 that's for sure1971 1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes 160 No matter how thick or how thin you slice it it's still baloney. 1941 P. G. Wodehouse Berlin Broadcasts in Performing Flea (1961) i. 261 Slice it where you like, it is still a German prison camp. 1968 J. Sangster Touchfeather xvii. 198 Whichever way you sliced it, I had absolutely nothing on Roger Gerastan except what I had guessed. 1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. xii. 257 Whichever way you slice it,..Cameron Clarke has done our cause a lot of harm. < as lemmas |
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