Timeline for What does “Somebody just can’t bake the cake,” mean? Is it a popular phrase?
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| Sep 30, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | Theresa | Maureen Dowd's writing is dense, even for native English speakers. Her brand of humor loses something in written form. | |
| Dec 16, 2011 at 17:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | NGramming both suggests "slice" is the more common version for this sense. From which I think the "cut" version gains currency, rather than the other way around. | |
| Dec 16, 2011 at 11:24 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Googling "I don't care how you cut it" shows that it is also an idiom on its own. | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 17:38 | comment | added | user13141 | Note that "I don't care how you cut it" is Steele's somewhat garbled variation of "however you slice it," which is actually an idiom. | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 11:16 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | I naively interpreted Dowd's wording "eloquently" as "precisely and adequately" and didn't notice that's an irony. | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 9:55 | history | edited | James Waldby - jwpat7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2011 at 9:49 | history | answered | James Waldby - jwpat7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |