greatest thing since sliced bread

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Somethingamazing,outstandingorpraiseworthy,especiallyarelativelyrecentinventionlikely toimprovepeople's lives.1962December 19, Jeanne Boardman, “Hints from Heloise”, inSt. Joseph Missouri Gazette, page 5:This column is about thegreatest thing since sliced bread.1978, Joe Girard, Stanley H. Brown,How to Sell Anything to Anybody, page104:Because if he starts to write a check for the full amount and I say, “Take off $250”, or “I'll throw in door-guard trim and five steel radials for nothing”, Charley is going to think I am thegreatest thing since sliced bread.2007, David S. Platt,Why Software Sucks: ...and What You Can Do About It, page208:It was thegreatest thing since sliced breadwhen it first came out, and I remember selling a big project to a customer by demonstrating it.

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