cookie cutter
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˈkʊki ˈkʌtər/
- Informal
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estereotipado
- Like there's this cookie cutter thought about branding that is so broken.
- cookie-cutter approach
It's so you know, cookie cutter, but it just works.
- It's so you know, cookie cutter, but it just works.
- And I think that a lot of movies are cookie cutter.
- So I went to the Jtech school and it's very cookie cutter, very book study heavy.
- And it's just that there's this stereotype of, you know, this kind of cookie cutter idea of the tortured writer.
- That happens also, you know, so there, there's just a lot going on and and you know, there's not a cookie cutter answer to that really, but OK, good.
- I mean, they're not serving you the same cookie cutter, boring plus size dishes that some other brands are serving you.
- So we can't just in a cookie cutter way take psychoanalytic concepts and then apply them to to this situation.
- It's another explanation for me about why people who are not extremist cookie cutter ideologues get criticized an awful lot.
- But if it's kind of, you know, cookie cutter, just little, you know, few passages, kind of stoicism, it probably is setting us up for that sort of thing.
- This is why we cannot restrict people to only want cookie cutter treatment.
- And last but not least, our three cookie cutter controllers.
Examples
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The other problem I have with this statement is that it sounds cookie-cutter, and I hate being cookie-cutter.
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It feels like a cookie cutter wedding, a wedding speech.
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It's so you know, cookie cutter, but it just works.
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When I picked up the first book, Some Girls Bite, I was expecting a cookie-cutter vampire book...
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Good school, good job, cookie-cutter house with the cookie-cutter husband to match.
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If we're all using the same cookie-cutter approach, we'd all turn out the same type of child.
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But the story felt more cookie-cutter than most Pixar films do.
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So I went to the Jtech school and it's very cookie cutter, very book study heavy.
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There isn't anything cookie cutter about TK's coaching.
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Many new businesses are criticized for their cookie-cutter approach, where every store looks exactly the same.
Synonyms
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7.2
Used so often that it feels boring
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3.4
Not new or creative like ideas you have heard before
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6.5
Not original and very similar to many others
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5.4
Not new because people use it too often and it is easy to guess
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7.0
Having no original ideas and following a simple idea about a group of people
Not new and made as a copy of another thing
Boring because it uses words or ideas people hear many times
Antonyms
How Unoriginal
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2.9
- US
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6.9
- Informal
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4.8
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2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
cookie + cutter
The literal object 'cookie cutter' produces identical, uniformly shaped cookies, so the adjective draws a metaphorical extension to things that are formulaic and all the same. This mapping from a tangible tool to a figurative sense is predictable for learners who know the literal compound, but it requires a metaphorical inference and may not be immediately obvious to all B1 learners, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Cookie cutter (adjective) comes from that baking tool that makes many identical cookies. Because a cutter produces the same shape over and over, people use the phrase to describe things made in a predictable way or 'lacking originality'.