Etymology of "It's been a slice!", "It's been a real slice!"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I heard the ironical "It's been a slice" from a fellow graduate student in
1975. He told me he'd first heard it a year or two earlier, and that it was
short for "a slice of life."

JL


On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Ann Burlingham <ann at burlinghambooks.com>wrote:

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> As a speaker, I'd say it's a truncation of "slice of life", but I can't
> offer more than my feeling for that. It's in the same realm as "it's been
> nice and it's been real, but I can't say it's been real nice" as a jocular
> farewell.
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