no matter how you slice it

Regardless of how a situation is analyzed, viewed, or portrayed, the truth of it remains unchanged. No matter how you slice it, the drastically lower sales numbers this year are bad news for the company's prospects for growth.

slice

In addition to the subsequent idiom beginning with slice, also see greatest thing since sliced bread; no matter how you slice it.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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