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cut-and-paste

[kuht-n-peyst]
–adjective
assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
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cut and paste
copy and paste

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

cut and paste

Describing a patched-up job or trivial work. For example, The revision was easy, just cut and paste, or The new assistant had expected some training, but all she got was cut and paste. This term alludes to simple artwork done by small childrencutting out pictures and gluing them to paper. [Mid-1900s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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