Cut And Dried

Of course, at this early point, it's not as cut-and-dried as that may sound, but it's hard to ignore that both Republican ladies' appeal targets the same basic clusters of primary voters. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)

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. ❋ Jason Linkins (2011)

Of course, this sounds more cut-and-dried than it often is in comments threads. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She concedes, however, that this is not cut-and-dried: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reality's rarely as cut-and-dried as we assume it to be. ❋ Sam Sommers (2012)

This is a hands down clear-cut, cut-and-dried, uncomplicated situation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's not always so cut-and-dried, "he tells TVGuide. com" There are sometimes conditions that lend themselves to why these things happen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“I have to agree with the critics the antiviral question is not cut-and-dried,” says Fauci. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although he and the cast all came to the same conclusion, Murphy says that the process of picking a winner was not as cut-and-dried as it seems. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the second complaint is pretty much a cut-and-dried case. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)