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CUT AND DRY

Specialty Definition: CUT AND DRY

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Literature

Cut and Dry Already prepared. "He had a speech all cut and dry." The allusion is to timber cut, dry, and fit for use.
"Sets of phrases, cut and dry,
Evermore thy tongue supply." Swift. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CUT AND DRY

Language Translations for "CUT AND DRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

刈り干す (to cut and dry). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かりほす (to cut and dry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utcay anday ydray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CUT AND DRY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-n-r-t-u-y"

-2 letters: truancy.

-3 letters: adduct, cruddy, tundra.

-4 letters: adunc, aunty, caddy, candy, canty, carny, cuddy, curdy, dandy, daunt, dryad, ducat, randy, ruddy, runty, tardy, unary, yurta.

-5 letters: arty, aunt, cant, card, carn, cart, crud, curd, curn, curt, cyan, darn, dart, daut, drat, dray, duad, duct, dunt, dura, durn, duty, dyad, narc, nard, nary, nurd, racy, rand.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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