1. fixed; determined beforehand; usual and uninteresting; routine

1. I find your writing quite boring. It’s too cut and dried.

2. The lecture was, as usual, cut and dried.

3. Most fire investigations are pretty cut and dried, but this one has left more questions than answers.

4. Unfortunately, there is no cut-and-dried answer to the problem of immigration.

5. Everything's not all cut and dry.