cut and dried
 枯燥無味的,刻板的,老一套的;現成的,事先準備好的


 Cut a.
 1. Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
 2. Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
 3. 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.

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