| 单词 | cut and dry |
| 释义 | > as lemmascut and dry a. cut and dried (also cut and dry): originally referring to herbs in the herbalists' shops, as contrasted with growing herbs; hence, figurative ready-made and void of freshness and spontaneity; also, ready shaped according to a priori formal notions. (Usually of language, ideas, schemes or the like.) ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [adjective] > fated or predestined born1357 destinablec1374 destinalc1374 fatalc1374 predestinatec1384 foreordainedc1420 ordinate?a1425 destiny?1473 preordinatea1475 prefinitec1475 pointed1523 predestined1545 determined1546 ordinated1562 predestinated1571 preordained?1580 fore-appointeda1586 predeterminate1601 predetermined1601 destinated1604 destinate1605 destined1609 predesigned1668 predefinite1678 cut and dry1710 fated1715 weirded1820 laid-down1839 foreordinated1858 predesignated1883 predestinatory1893 preset1926 predefined1929 predestine1962 bashert1963 1710 J. B. Let. to Sacheverell 13 Your Sermon was ready Cut and Dry'd. 1730 J. Swift Betty the Grizette in Poems Sets of Phrases, cut and dry, Evermore thy Tongue supply. 1796 J. Wolcot Satire in Wks. (1812) III. 408 Phrases ready cut and dried. 1883 St. James's Gaz. 1 Dec. 3/1 A Socialist, but a Socialist who has no cut-and-dry scheme of Socialism. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady vii. 191 Quite enough to scatter my cut and dried theories to the winds. to cut and dry 40. to cut and carve: see carve v. 11. to cut and contrive: to practise economy so as to keep one's expenses within one's means. to cut and dry: to render cut and dried: see cut adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (intransitive)] > live within one's means to cut one's cloth according to one's calling1546 to hold or bring (bare) buckle and thong together1600 to cut and contrive1854 to make buckle and tongue meet1859 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. ii. 7 A mighty man at cutting and drying. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. iii. 53 I am obliged to cut and contrive. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 8) 360 You cannot cut and dry truth. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge xiv Cutting and contriving to make both ends meet. < as lemmas |
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