CUT-AND-DRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut-and-dried mean? 

• CUT-AND-DRIED (adjective)
  The adjective CUT-AND-DRIED has 1 sense:

1. according to ordinary expectations

  Familiarity information: CUT-AND-DRIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT-AND-DRIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

According to ordinary expectations

Synonyms:

cut-and-dried; cut-and-dry

Similar:

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)

 Context examples 

But if I had not taken things for granted, if I had examined everything with the care which I should have shown had we approached the case de novo and had no cut-and-dried story to warp my mind, should I not then have found something more definite to go upon? Of course I should.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)