英语词汇cut and dried的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cut and dried. The allusion is probably not to ready-cut timber, as Brewer says, but to the cut-and-dried herbs that were sold in the herbalists’ shops of 17th-century England. Used as remedies, herbs were more effective cut and dried than they were fresh picked, and herbalists stocked great quantities of them. The phrase came to mean “far from fresh, hackneyed,” its first recorded use in this sense being in a 1710 letter to a preacher whose sermon was described as “cut and dry’d.” The words also came to mean “clear cut.” By the time Swift used the phrase for hackneyed literary style in his poem “Betty the Grizette” (1730), it was already fairly hackneyed itself:

词汇	cut and dried
词源	cut and dried. The allusion is probably not to ready-cut timber, as Brewer says, but to the cut-and-dried herbs that were sold in the herbalists’ shops of 17th-century England. Used as remedies, herbs were more effective cut and dried than they were fresh picked, and herbalists stocked great quantities of them. The phrase came to mean “far from fresh, hackneyed,” its first recorded use in this sense being in a 1710 letter to a preacher whose sermon was described as “cut and dry’d.” The words also came to mean “clear cut.” By the time Swift used the phrase for hackneyed literary style in his poem “Betty the Grizette” (1730), it was already fairly hackneyed itself: Sets of phrases, cut and dry, Ever more thy tongue supply.
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