cut-and-dried

1. Prepared and arranged in advance; settled.
2. Ordinary; routine: cut-and-dried dialogue.

adjective

Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See good/bad, usual/unusual.

Ready-made, predetermined and not changeable. For example, The procedure is not quite cut and dried--there's definitely room for improvisation. This expression originally alluded to herbs for sale in a shop, as opposed to fresh, growing herbs. [c. 1900]

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: according to ordinary expectations
  Synonym: cut-and-dry