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no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney en · X
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(US) Irrespective of the number of subtle distinctions or ingenious arguments one presents, the claim remains either false or devoid of meaning.
Some of our leading scholars trace it back to a favorite American saying of that time, "No matter how thin you slice it, it is still boloney."
1933 November 29, “Topics of the Times”, in New York Times, page 18:"Do you have the ability," he asked another juror, "to discern between the truth and baloney?"
"I think so, definitely."
"No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney, right?"
2002, Dave Distel, The Sweater Letter, →ISBN, page 267:
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by any measure · at any rate · any way one slices it