any way one slices it

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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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any way one slices it

  1. (chiefly US, informal) From any perspective; in every case.
    Synonyms: however one slices it, no matter how one slices it, no matter how one looks at it, whichever way one slices it
    Any way you slice it, we have to get out of here and we have to take him with us.
    • 1998, Bill Pronzini, Boobytrap, Speaking Volumes, →ISBN:
      Back inside I thought it all over carefully, weighing my options. Not good, any way you sliced it.
    • 2013, William F. Zak, A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 74:
      Any way one slices it, his dissection of human disease is not a pretty sight.
    • 2018, Derek Haas, The Way I Die: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      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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