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"etymology_text": "1710, from herbs being cut and dried for sale, rather than fresh.",
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"text": "Take care when guessing, since problems do not always have cut-and-dried answers.",
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"ref": "1904 September, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:",
"text": "But if I had not taken things for granted, if I had examined everything with the care which I should have shown had we approached the case de novo and had no cut-and-dried story to warp my mind, should I not then have found something more definite to go upon?",
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"ref": "1949, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, act 2:",
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