| 单词 | sliced bread |
| 释义 | > as lemmassliced bread b. Of food: sold already cut into slices, esp. sliced bread. Also in colloquial phrase the best (or greatest, etc.) thing since sliced bread: an expression of enthusiastic appreciation, esp. of a new invention or discovery. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [phrase] not to be the rose but to be near it1818 a whale of1913 a snip of a1932 the best (or greatest, etc.) thing since sliced bread1958 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > [adjective] > sliced > sold sliced sliced1958 1958 J. Mortimer What shall we tell Caroline? ii. 109 The trouble with living here, the butter gets as hard as the rock of Gibraltar. It blasts great holes in your sliced bread. 1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water xxxi. 124 They prodded..their product... Sliced, sterilized and Cellophane-wrapped; a loaf. 1969 R. Jaffe Fame Game (1970) v. 106 You're the greatest thing since sliced bread. 1970 Guardian 28 Feb. 10/1 The biggest thing since sliced bread is now in the shops. It is called part-baked bread. 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xii. 183 Bodkin regards you as the best thing that's happened since sliced bread. 1973 J. Thomson Death Cap ii. 34 Mrs King asked me to..buy half a pound of sliced ham and I cut the sandwiches. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 21 Aug. 6/3 ‘They're the best thing since sliced bread and they're selling like wildfire here,’ says Dan Wagner, proprietor of the Georgetown Cycle Shop. 1981 Austral. Forest Industries Jrnl. Oct. (Plywood & Veneer Suppl.) 35 (heading) Sheathing—the greatest thing since sliced bread! < as lemmas |
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