cut-and-paste

[kuht-n-peyst]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces.
The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.

cut and paste

noun

a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document

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Idioms and Phrases

Describing a patched-up job or trivial work. For example, The revision was easy, just cut and paste, or The new assistant had expected some training, but all she got was cut and paste. This term alludes to simple artwork done by small children—cutting out pictures and gluing them to paper. [Mid-1900s]

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"We need to be able to ensure that we're not talking about cut-and-paste action plans, but we can demonstrate that action has been taken and that recommendations are implemented."

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Austin began laying out Architectural Pottery advertisements and catalogs at a time when the work was cut-and-paste.

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There are the usual lines of attack — conflating Harris’ diplomacy in Central America with her being a “border czar” — but it’s largely a cut-and-paste job.

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The blogger, 32-year-old Sholto David, of Pontypridd, Wales, is a scientist-sleuth who detects cut-and-paste image manipulation in published scientific papers.

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Among other things, court records show, the lawyer ignored evidence supplied by Mr. Gamboa, filed a cut-and-paste habeas corpus petition that still bore the name of an earlier client and submitted a brief admitting that his client must lose.

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cut and fill cut and run

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