slice the pie

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slice the pie (third-person singular simple present slices the pie, present participle slicing the pie, simple past and past participle sliced the pie)

1. To slowly pan from one side to the other through an opening or at an edge while holding a firearm so as to only expose oneself to one location at a time.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slice,‎ pie.