cut and dry

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cut and dry (not comparable)

  1. (less common) Alternative form of cut and dried
    • 1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World‎[1]:
      Just because it is all cut and dry. Just because it is ready-made. Just because it lies there in reliable, convenient and logical propositions. The moment you appropriate truth in such a shape you appropriate a form. You cannot cut and dry truth. You cannot accept truth ready-made without it ceasing to nourish the soul as the truth.
    • 2013 May 10, Jonathan Piggins, “Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      Nowadays, thanks to the irrepressible rise of content marketing, SEO's cut and dry quantitative approach is evolving to incorporate its opposite number: quality.
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