Definition of Cut-and-dry

1. Adjective. According to ordinary expectations.

Exact synonyms: Cut-and-dried
Similar to: Ordinary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut-and-dry

customshouse
customshouses
custos
custos regni
custos rotulorum
custrel
custrels
custron
custumal
custumals
custumaries
custumary
cusum
cut
cut-and-dried
cut-and-dry (current term)
cut-and-paste
cut-and-shut
cut-and-thrust
cut-back
cut-in
cut-off
cut-offs
cut-out
cut-outs
cut-price
cut-rate
cut-rate sale
cut-throat
cut-throat razor

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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