Citations:greatest thing since sliced bread

English citations of greatest thing since sliced bread

1. • 1962, Jeanne Boardman, letter to "Hints from Heloise", St. Joseph, Missouri, Gazette (Wednesday, December 19, 1962), page 5:

     This column is about the greatest thing since sliced bread.

   • 1978, Joe Girard, Stanley H. Brown, How to Sell Anything to Anybody, page 104:

     Because if he starts to write a check for the full amount and I say, "Take off $250", or "I'll throw in door-guard trim and five steel radials for nothing", Charley is going to think I am the greatest thing since sliced bread.

   • 2007, David S. Platt, Why Software Sucks: ...and What You Can Do About It, page 208:

     It was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it first came out, and I remember selling a big project to a customer by demonstrating it.

   • 2010, Echo Bodine, The Gift: Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities, page 53:

     What do you do if you go to Al-Anon and think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and a friend of yours asks for some psychic guidance regarding her lousy marriage to her alcoholic husband?

   • 2011, Russell Wild, Exchange-Traded Funds For Dummies, page 173:

     All right, I concede, maybe these funds aren't the greatest thing since sliced bread.