Cut-and-dried

13:26 Jun 12, 2008
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Dutch to French translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / HRM
Dutch term or phrase: Cut-and-dried
Credential-based pay is much more cut-and-dried than skill-based or knowledge-based pay.

I am looking for the equivalent proverb/expression of "cut-and-dried".
Williamson
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Summary of answers provided
3clair et simple/évident (here)
Ide Verhelst (X)


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clair et simple/évident (here)


Explanation:
I found the following definition in this llink http://www.answers.com/topic/cut-and-dried) :

adj.
1. Prepared and arranged in advance; settled.
2. Ordinary; routine: cut-and-dried dialogue.

And these synonyms : "Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable.

In french that wood be "convenu", "banal" (see Petit Robert)

However, I have the feeling that the autor uses it here rather as a synomym for "clear-cut" or "straightforward", in other words "simple".





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