cut-and-dried
Example Sentences
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If the grey belt had been defined in a legally watertight way… then it would have been cut and dried and you could have built a lot of houses, but they didn't do that.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025
John Pelissero, a former interim college president who now works for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said instances of plagiarism deserve to be evaluated individually and that it’s not always so cut and dried.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024
But how much blame they should shoulder this time is less cut and dried.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
Originally, it seemed as though the criteria for pulling this particular lever was fairly cut and dried.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2022
I imagined the cedars that were now cut and dried and split into house shingles.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
