"cut and dry" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World:",
          "text": "Just because it is all cut and dry. Just because it is ready-made. Just because it lies there in reliable, convenient and logical propositions. The moment you appropriate truth in such a shape you appropriate a form. You cannot cut and dry truth. You cannot accept truth ready-made without it ceasing to nourish the soul as the truth.",
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          "ref": "2013 May 10, Jonathan Piggins, “Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Nowadays, thanks to the irrepressible rise of content marketing, SEO's cut and dry quantitative approach is evolving to incorporate its opposite number: quality.",
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        "(less common) Alternative form of cut and dried"
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          "text": "Just because it is all cut and dry. Just because it is ready-made. Just because it lies there in reliable, convenient and logical propositions. The moment you appropriate truth in such a shape you appropriate a form. You cannot cut and dry truth. You cannot accept truth ready-made without it ceasing to nourish the soul as the truth.",
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