Slice of the pie
Also, slice of the cake . A share of the proceeds or benefits, as in It’s reasonable for a heavy contributor to ask for a big slice of the pie . This metaphor for a division of the spoils dates from the late 1800s. Also see the synonym piece of the action
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- Slicer
noun 1. a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food: a cheese slicer. 2. a person or thing that slices. noun 1. a machine that slices bread, etc, usually with an electrically driven band knife or circular knife 2. (electronics) a limiter having two boundary values, the portion of the signal between these […]
- Slicers
noun 1. a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food: a cheese slicer. 2. a person or thing that slices. noun 1. a machine that slices bread, etc, usually with an electrically driven band knife or circular knife 2. (electronics) a limiter having two boundary values, the portion of the signal between these […]
- Slick
adjective, slicker, slickest. 1. smooth and glossy; sleek. 2. smooth in manners, speech, etc.; suave. 3. sly; shrewdly adroit: He’s a slick customer, all right. 4. ingenious; cleverly devised: a slick plan to get out of work. 5. slippery, especially from being covered with or as if with ice, water, or oil. 6. deftly executed […]
- Slick as a whistle
sliced bread slick as a whistle Very-smooth and neat; also, smoothly, quickly, easily. For example, That salesman is as slick as a whistle, or The fence post went in place slick as a whistle. The allusion in this simile, first recorded in 1830, is not totally clear, but presumably it refers either to the ease […]
- Slicked
verb (used with object) 1. to make sleek or smooth. 2. to use a slicker on (skins or hides). 3. Informal. to make smart or fine; spruce up (usually followed by up). noun 4. Metallurgy. a small trowel used for smoothing the surface of the mold. 5. any woodworking chisel having a blade more than […]