Idiom
clear cut
Meaning
Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The rules for this game are clear cut.”
“The instructions were not clear cut, so we had to ask the manager for help.”
“While the legal arguments were complex, the judge insisted that the moral obligations of the contract were entirely clear cut.”
Examples
simple
“The rules for this game are clear cut.”
contextual
“The instructions were not clear cut, so we had to ask the manager for help.”
complex
“While the legal arguments were complex, the judge insisted that the moral obligations of the contract were entirely clear cut.”
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