The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), a.
Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
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Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang]
Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous.
Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures.
Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail.
Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context idiomatic English) simple, straightforward, clear, or certain 2 (context idiomatic English) decided, set, settled, not open to change 3 (context idiomatic obsolete English) lacking freshness or spontaneity alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) simple, straightforward, clear, or certain 2 (context idiomatic English) decided, set, settled, not open to change 3 (context idiomatic obsolete English) lacking freshness or spontaneity
Usage examples of "cut and dried".
OK, even with Opalexian's help, there was no cut and dried guarantee that all would go to plan, but there was no way I should take Panthera along.
I hear that it is a pretty clean deal and that SEC approval should be pretty much cut and dried after they get the complete audit report, the draft of the red herring.
So Hardinge, with a speed and zeal which would have been useful months ago, had his terms cut and dried and ready to shove down Goolab's throat a mere five days after the war ended.
Well, to be honest, if it were that cut and dried, there wouldn't be a Celestial War in the first place, would there?
Every day the Artur Blord Holding Company does several ten millions of stellors' worth of business, but it's all cut and dried now.