Essential english idioms intermediate

to eat in/to eat out:to eat at home/to eat in a restaurant

· I feel too tired to go out for dinner. Let’s eat in again tonight.

· When you eat out, what restaurant do you generally go to?

cut and dried:predictable, known beforehand; boring

· The results of the national election were rather cut and dried; the Republicans won easily.

· A job on a factory assembly line is certainly cut and dried.