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What does cut and dried mean?

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Adjective
  1. simple, straightforward, clear, or certain
  2. decided, set, settled, not open to change
  3. (obsolete) lacking freshness or spontaneity
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The separation between programmes according to the age of the beneficiaries is far from cut and dried.
I would have thought it would be pretty cut and dried when one biffs a senior citizen down the stairs.
We are up at Workington next which is going to be a real tough game so it's definitely not cut and dried at the moment.
Even the NDP obviously acknowledges that the issue of pension reform is not cut and dried.
We cannot give a fast cut and dried answer to this issue, and there should be a much broader discussion.
It's something that didn't go unnoticed in the Jensen household once his move north was cut and dried.

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