slice of life

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Etymology

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Calque of French tranche de vie.

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Noun

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slice of life (plural slices of life)

  1. A work in a genre (of theater, cinema, literature, manga, etc.) that presents day-to-day happenings with no clear central plot and takes place in a world that mirrors our own.
  2. An ordinary social occurrence or sequence of events.
    • 2003, Thomas C. O'Guinn, Chris T. Allen, Richard J. Semenik, Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion, page 201:
      [] in the culturally constituted world, but it needs advertising to link it to certain social representations, certain slices of life.

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