| 词汇 | cut-and-dried |
| 释义 | cut and dried adjective uk /ˌkʌt ən ˈdraɪd/ us /ˌkʌt ən ˈdraɪd/ already decided and unlikely to be changed: 决定的;固定的;已成定局的 We need a cut-and-dried decision by the end of the week.到这周末我们得把这事彻底定下来。 simple and easy to understand: 简单的，易于理解的 Most fire investigations are pretty cut and dried, but this one has left more questions than answers.大部分的火灾调查都很简单，但是这一次的却有很多问题还无法回答。 Certainty (as) clear as dayidiom (as) sure as eggs is eggsidiom and that's flat!idiom assure someone of something assured deffo definite definitely definitive definitive answer ironclad irrefutable irrefutably make no mistake (about it)idiom mistake unreserved unreservedly watertight would you can bet your lifeidiom cut-and-dried | American Dictionarycut-and-dried adjective us/ˈkʌt·ənˈdrɑɪd/(alsocut-and-dry, us/ˈkʌt·ənˈdrɑɪ/) clear and simple and removing any further uncertainty or difficulty: Unfortunately, there is no cut-and-dried answer to the problem of immigration. Examples of cut and driedcut and dried The fact that the physician's duty is fairly cutanddried does not mean that it should receive a sort of constitutional primacy. Certainly, these are difficult questions which do not have cutanddried answers. We are not dealing with something that is cutanddried or traditional. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not easy to make an absolutely cutanddried picture of the way in which it will work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The procedure in another place is cutanddried and very specific. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everything must be cutanddried: we must know exactly what this or that soldier will do when we go to war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our original amendment on indexation was cutanddried. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot pretend at this stage to have cutanddried answers on all the points connected with the future of the museum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He should not present councils with a fait accompli, and a cutanddried, take-it-or-leave-it decision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is impossible to do it in the form of cutanddried targets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is far from being cutanddried. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is why we are not today advancing cutanddried conclusions on anything except the overall approach. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that the question is cutanddried. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no cutanddried, short-term solution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no cutanddried rules, and that leaves employers and employees vulnerable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of cut and dried These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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