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Definition of Cut-and-dry
1. Adjective. According to ordinary expectations.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut-and-dry
Literary usage of Cut-and-dry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Cut and Dry. Already prepared. "He had a speech all cut and dry." The allusion
is to timber cut, dry, and fit for use. ..."
2. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"... snugly cut and dry for himself. At that place there were considerable riches
found in gold, silver, and jewels, as no European had ever penetrated there ..."
3. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"The only knowledge •worth having and which lasts us for life must not be cut and
dry, but on the contrary must be living and growing knowledge, knowledge of ..."
4. Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1905)
"The cut-and-dry knowledge which is acquired from the study of manuals or from
so-called crammers is very apt to share the fate of cut flowers. ..."
5. The New Evangelism, and Other Addresses by Henry Drummond (1899)
"There it lies ready made to his hand, all cut and dry; why should he not use it ?
Just because it is all cut and dry. Just because it lies there ready made ..."
6. Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond (1888)
"Just because it is all cut and dry. Just because it is ready-made. ... You cannot
cut and dry truth. You cannot accept truth ready-made without it ceasing ..."
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