no matter how you slice it



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.
See also: how, matter, slice

no matter how you slice it

(spoken)
in whatever way you consider this any way you slice it No matter how you slice it, graduate school is expensive.
See also: how, matter, slice

no matter how you slice it

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]
See also: how, matter, slice

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ElenEL-enWelsh
EvvieEE-vee, EV-eeEnglish
Shahjahan-Urdu
Marquesmahr-KEEAfrican American (Modern)
Nathaliena-ta-LEE (French), NAH-tah-lee (German)French, German
SvajonĖ-Lithuanian