cut-and-dried

• “This is a hands down clear-cut, cut-and-dried, uncomplicated situation.”

  The game animal you shot goes down, but when you get to it, it is still alive. How do you dispatch the animal?

• “But the second complaint is pretty much a cut-and-dried case.”

  The Washington Post: Time to Lawyer Up, Libby

• “Of course, this sounds more cut-and-dried than it often is in comments threads.”

  Archive 2010-03-01

• “It's not always so cut-and-dried, "he tells TVGuide. com" There are sometimes conditions that lend themselves to why these things happen.”

  Criminal Minds: What Happens When a Serial Killer Has Alzheimer's?

• “Nobody had to wrest away exclusive CNN rights to, say, the Pentagon or Federal Reserve — but TV sports revolves around such cut-and-dried deals.”

  A Comcast takeover could bring more tools, questions to NBC Sports

• “This seems, to adults who have reached the formal operational stage of cognitive development, to be a cut-and-dried case of an understanding that could have been very easily resolved if all were in their right minds.”

  The Huffington Post: College Student Doesn't Get A Bad Example

• “Reality's rarely as cut-and-dried as we assume it to be.”

  The Huffington Post: Sam Sommers: Santorum: Freudian Slip or Stutter?

• “The alcohol, shrewdly blended with water, is handed to me, and soon I am caught up in the revelry, with maggots crawling in my brain and John Barleycorn whispering to me that life is big, and that we are all brave and fine -- free spirits sprawling like careless gods upon the turf and telling the two-by - four, cut-and-dried, conventional world to go hang.”

  Chapter 13

• ““I have to agree with the critics the antiviral question is not cut-and-dried,” says Fauci.”

  Does the Vaccine Matter?

• “She concedes, however, that this is not cut-and-dried:”

  Archive 2009-04-01

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