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"etymology_text": "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.",
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"text": "Any way you slice it, we have to get out of here and we have to take him with us.",
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"ref": "1998, Bill Pronzini, Boobytrap, Speaking Volumes",
"text": "Back inside I thought it all over carefully, weighing my options. Not good, any way you sliced it.",
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"ref": "2013, William F. Zak, A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield, page 74",
"text": "Any way one slices it, his dissection of human disease is not a pretty sight.",
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"ref": "2018, Derek Haas, The Way I Die: A Novel, Simon and Schuster",
"text": "Any way I slice it, that's going to take some time. Just flying there and back is going to eat up days.",
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"word": "no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney"
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"word": "however one slices it"
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"word": "no matter how one slices it"
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"word": "whichever way one slices it"
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"word": "any way one cuts it"
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "vaikka asiaa miten kääntelisi"
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "de toute façon"
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "en tout cas"
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "pod każdym względem"
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"note": "как ни крути́ (kak ni krutí, literally “however you turn it”)",
"sense": "from any perspective; in every case"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "i vilket fall som helst"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "vaikka asiaa miten kääntelisi"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "de toute façon"
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "en tout cas"
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "pod każdym względem"
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"code": "ru",
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"note": "как ни крути́ (kak ni krutí, literally “however you turn it”)",
"sense": "from any perspective; in every case"
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"sense": "from any perspective; in every case",
"word": "i vilket fall som helst"
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