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Meaning of cut and dry | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“Nowadays, thanks to the irrepressible rise of content marketing, SEO's cut and dry quantitative approach is evolving to incorporate its opposite number: quality.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

cut and sew cut down cut from the same cloth cut out cut short cut throat