cut-and-dried
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nˈdraɪd adjective
1.
prepared or settled in advance; not needing much thought or discussion: a cut-and-dried decision.
2.
lacking in originality or spontaneity; routine; boring: a lecture that was cut-and-dried.
Also, cut-and-dry.
Origin:
1700–10
1700–10
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| cut-and-dried | |
adjective | |
| according to ordinary expectations |
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Cut-and-dried
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The benefits of hybrids tend to be less cut-and-dried for home gardeners, however, and saving seeds from hybrids is problematic.
Unfortunately, though, things don't tend to be quite so cut-and-dried.
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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