cut-and-dried

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adjective

prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.

lacking in originality or spontaneity; routine; boring: a lecture that was cut-and-dried.

Also, cut-and-dry.

Origin:
1700–10

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cut-and-dried
adjective
according to ordinary expectations

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Example sentences

Although these three criteria appear cut-and-dried, they can be misapplied in

practice, and errors may arise.

The evidence submitted in real courts is often not as cut-and-dried as it seems

on television.

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"Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grand style." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon—and of all this he is conscious and proud."

-Richard Holt Hutton