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cut-and-dried
[ kuht-n-drahyd ]
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.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of cut-and-dried1
Idioms and Phrases
Ready-made, predetermined and not changeable. For example, The procedure is not quite cut and dried鈥攖here's definitely room for improvisation . This expression originally alluded to herbs for sale in a shop, as opposed to fresh, growing herbs. [c. 1900]Example Sentences
The latter is a novel that should have been marketed as a cut-and-dried narco thriller but was instead positioned as an overdue humanization of the undocumented experience at the Mexican border.
Because there isn鈥檛 a cut-and-dried solution in the context of 鈥淪quid Game 2,鈥 it demands conversation, which can be important in and of itself.
The complex interactions of fluid and soft matter physics prove challenging to simplify into cut-and-dried formulae.
She has taken a cut-and-dried case based on overwhelming evidence and made it a long shot to be tried this year, when it matters most.
That鈥檚 because of two aspects that are anything but cut-and-dried: copyright law and a new technology.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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