slice and dice

English

Verb

slice and dice (third-person singular simple present slices and dices, present participle slicing and dicing, simple past and past participle sliced and diced)

1. (transitive) To cut and chop to pieces.
   • 2009, Ellen Brown, $3 Meals in Minutes […] , Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 23:

     To slice and dice: Place the onion on a chopping board, and slice it in half lengthwise.

2. (transitive, figurative) To rearrange or analyze in a number of different ways, often arbitrarily.
   • 2011, Allen G. Taylor, Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 222:

     To demonstrate how to create an OLAP report, here's a chance to slice and dice some data from a cube based on the Xtreme database and see what it can tell you.