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slice of the pie



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, slice of the cake . A share of the proceeds or benefits, as in It's reasonable for a heavy contributor to ask for a big slice of the pie . This metaphor for a division of the spoils dates from the late 1800s. Also see the synonym piece of the action .
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"Everybody's going to be like, okay, we need a bigger slice of the pie," she said.

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Yet I suspect that the stock market would perform well even if C.E.O.s merely earned millions, instead of hundreds of millions, and rank-and-file workers got a bigger slice of the pie.

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Ke Huy Quan, last year’s best supporting actor winner for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and one of the men who presented it to Robert Downey Jr. for “Oppenheimer” this year, grabbed a slice of the pie after walking the carpet and scarfed it down like he hadn’t eaten all day.

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Unsurprisingly, online sales make up for a much bigger slice of the pie today.

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For the bottom 40% by income that means a smaller slice of the pie even as their net worth has risen at the swiftest pace in years.

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