any way you slice it

(also no matter how you slice it)

Definition

› there is only one possible result: Any way you slice it, there are going to be a lot of unhappy people when the winner is announced.

(Definition of any way you slice it from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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anxiety noun
anxious adjective
any adjective, pronoun (NOT IMPORTANT WHICH)
any adjective, pronoun (SOME)
any adverb (AT ALL)
any way you slice it idiom
anybody pronoun
anyhow adverb
anymore adverb
anyone pronoun
anyplace adverb

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