Timeline for Origin of "It's been a slice"
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 12:40 | answer | added | Randal Oulton | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 18, 2015 at 3:26 | answer | added | user122010 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 10:11 | answer | added | Hugo | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 0:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/380122945055916032 | ||
| Sep 17, 2013 at 19:34 | comment | added | user52259 | I think it's short for "It's been a slice of heaven." | |
| Jul 20, 2013 at 0:41 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | If you understand its meaning, perhaps you would be so kind as to explain it to the rest of us. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 19:06 | comment | added | user22138 | That was my initial thought also. Seems the most plausible. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 16:39 | comment | added | aurora | I'm just guessing here: "it's been a slice (of life)" where "slice of life" is translated from the French "tranche de la vie" and normally used to describe a realistic scene in a drama act which reminds us of everyday life. So by saying "It's been a slice" could be short for suggesting that what happened just now was part of everyday (dramatic) life. But just a guess... | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 10:47 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | I hadn't made that connection; perhaps. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 9:45 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I was thinking a deformation of s'nice as in: "itssnice to see you" snice = slice ? And from there the greeting: "it's been a slice." | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 9:00 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | So a variant on 'a piece of cake'? | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:30 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | Just speculating here, which may say more about my age than the phrase itself, but my recollection is that this phrase came in to popular use in the late '60's and early '70's. if so, I think it refers to a slice of pizza from resolving the Mary-Jane munchies with friends. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:23 | history | edited | brnojo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:16 | history | edited | brnojo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:06 | history | asked | brnojo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |