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Definition of Cut-and-dried
1. Adjective. According to ordinary expectations.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut-and-dried
Literary usage of Cut-and-dried
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Corporate Organization and Management by Thomas Conyngton, Helen Potter (1917)
""Cut and Dried Minutes" The annual meeting of stockholders is frequently held in
a locality distant from the residence of the parties really in interest, ..."
2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1855)
"members in, who not having heard anything of the matter are ready cut and dried
for the purpose. I think we follow 'em up hill and shall pull 'em back ..."
3. Business Ownership Organization by Archibald Herbert Stockder (1922)
""Cut and Dried" Procedure. — While the procedure above outlined is in ... In this
way the whole procedure may be handled in a " cut and dried " way, ..."
4. The Earlier Renaissance by George Saintsbury (1901)
"... of the " heroic poem," with its cut-and- dried exordia and invocations, its
cut-and-dried supernatural interferences, its cut-and-dried revolutions, ..."
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