"… best thing since sliced bread"
being the fob that I am, sometimes (… fine, many times a day) i google words i don’t understand and click that link on the top right hand corner for its definition. but even more often i google english figure of speeches, because, again, being the fob that i am, i don’t have natural sense for those things.
today, as i was updating my AIM profile, i stumbled upon “best thing since sliced bread”, and i wonder… did i use it correctly? so i turned to my trusty friend google. not only did i learn how to use it correctly (some people say “slice of bread”, which i think is less appropriate… though i may be wrong), i also learned how the phrase was “invented”. check this out:
Bread, you see, used to be sold in unsliced loaves — a fellow in the 1700′s, for instance, who wanted his morning toast would have to carefully carve each slice from a large lumpy loaf with a big knife, which is quite a bother first thing in the morning. [...] The advent of mass-produced sliced bread in the mid-20th century was thus seen as a great boon to the human race.
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and look, there’s even a wikipedia article on it! once again google saves the day
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