cutting it dry
Showing up to an event late. Not completing a task on time or finishing after it is too late.
Its already 10AM, you're cutting it dry today aren't you?
cut and dry
Set, not open to change. Being or done according to a plan.
Lisa: Ugh, my manager is so annoying. She points out all my mistakes and never my achievements.
Rob: Yeah, she is pretty cut and dry. She wants things a certain way.
Rob: Yeah, she is pretty cut and dry. She wants things a certain way.
Cut and Dry
Term often used by mental midgets who do not know the English language. Usually said by hammerheads who want to come off as intelligent but are looked at sideways by people who properly say cut and dried.
Susie denied Jimmy some action in the basement with a strong no! It was pretty cut and dry.
cut & dry
1. Prepared and arranged in advance; settled.
2. Ordinary; routine: cut-and-dried dialogue.
- according to ordinary expectations
2. Ordinary; routine: cut-and-dried dialogue.
- according to ordinary expectations
Living life just is never cut & dry.