cut-and-paste

[ kuht-n-peyst ]

adjective

1. 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

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

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]