greatest thing since sliced bread

Sliced bread.

Meaning

Noun

  • Something very good, especially a relatively recent invention likely to improve people's lives.

Origin

  • Adapted from the advertising slogan used in 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company (the first company to sell sliced bread), which was as follows:
  • The greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.

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