/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Cut and Dry
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Already prepared. “He had a speech all cut and dry.” The allusion is to timber cut, dry, and fit for use.
“Sets of phrases, cut and dry,
Evermore thy tongue supply.”
Swift.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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