Loose Ends: Sliced bread

Nothing better than sliced bread is an old-fashioned phrase that isn’t heard often these days in casual conversation. This phrase is usually used by people of a certain age, whose family members may have said it regularly to express their satisfaction or to offer a compliment to the baker. Now it can be used, like the rings on an old stump, to date the speaker. Most folks have accrued so many of these sayings, one…