cut-and-dried

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’t a cut-and-dried solution in the context of “Squid Game 2,” 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’s because of two aspects that are anything but cut-and-dried: copyright law and a new technology.