Words in the News allowed pastors and vendors to cite religious objections in denying services to gay couples and which activists argued would curtail civil rights. cut and dried clair et net At emergency talks in Brussels with Greece's creditors in June 2015, the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, was told that a "cut-anddried"* solution had to be found quickly to stop his country from going bankrupt as its eurozone bailout was set to expire. * Hyphens required when placed before noun 40