cut and dried

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cut and dried

fixed; determined beforehand; usual and uninteresting. (Can be hyphenated before nominals.) I find your writing quite boring. It's too cut and dried. The lecture was, as usual, cut and dried.

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Perkins followed; she had several petitions at her command, good sincere ones too, but a little cut and dried, made of scripture texts laboriously woven together. Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context I had certainly been flushed with wine when I left Rattray; it would be no bad thing for him to hear that I had arrived quite tipsy at the cottage; should he discover I had been near an hour on the way, here was my explanation cut and dried. Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context One must bring his meditations cut and dried, or else cut and dry them afterward. The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context			curtsy to curve curve to cushion cushion the blow cuss cuss a blue streak cuss out custody customer customer is always right cut cut a break cut a check cut a deal cut a figure cut a fine figure cut a rug cut a swath cut a swath through cut a wide swath cut above cut across cut along cut an [interesting etc.] figure cut and dried cut and paste cut and run cut around cut at cut away cut back cut back to cut both ways cut class cut coat according to cloth cut corners cut dead cut down cut down to cut down to size cut eyes at cut eyeteeth on cut from cut from the same cloth cut in cut into cut it fine cut it out Cut it out! cut loose			cut a ribbon cut a rug cut a swath cut a swath cut a swath through cut a swath through cut a swathe through cut a tape cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swathe cut above cut across cut across cut across cut adrift cut against the grain Cut All to Shreds cut along cut along Cut Amplified Noise cut an [interesting etc.] figure cut an figure cut an figure cut an figure cut an figure Cut and Come Again cut and dried Cut and fill Cut and fill cut and fit Cut and longtail Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Artist Cut and run Cut and Sifted cut and thrust cut apart cut around cut at cut away cut away cut away at cut back cut back cut back cut back cut back cut back to cut back zone Cut Bank, Montana cut both ways cut both ways cut both ways

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