cut and dried

Meaning: Routine (sentence 1) or clear and unequivocal (sentence 2).

Language: English

Literally: (Already vivid in English)

Category: Daily Life

More idioms — Daily Life

• cut corners — To do things poorly or incompletely in order to save money.
• cut someone to the quick — To hurt or wound someone deeply.
• damn someone with faint praise — To criticize in such a way that one appears to be praising when in fact one is condemning…
• dawn on someone — To realize something that was perhaps already apparent to others.
• someone's days are numbered — There is only a short time before something ends.
• dead to the world — Fast asleep.

More English idioms

• deal someone in — To include someone in something, especially a card game.
• diamond in the rough — An unpolished or unsophisticated person that has potential.
• divide the spoils — To give portions of the goods captured during a war to the winners of the war.
• do or die — To act out of necessity, even if the outcome is unpleasant (sentences 1 and 2) or to try…
• do someone a good turn — To do someone a favor without having been asked and without expecting a favor in return.
• dot the i's and cross the t's — To be very careful and attentive to detail.

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