no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney

English

Alternative forms

• no matter how you slice it, it's still the same old baloney
• no matter how thin you slice it, it's still boloney

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Proverb

no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney

1. (chiefly US) Regardless of how many clever points or fine distinctions one makes, what one is saying is still false or is still nonsense.
   • 1933 November 29, “Topics of the Times”, in New York Times, page 18:

     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."

   • 2002, Dave Distel, The Sweater Letter, →ISBN, page 267:

     "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?"

References

• “No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney”, The Big Apple, August 02, 2010