What does this phrase even mean? Is it some sort of subliminal circumcision reference? With the circumcision itself, there's the cutting and then eventually the incision site dries. And then afterwards the phallus itself becomes "cut and dry". Is this deliberate? It reminds me of something a rabbi said, "you will be commanded, and you will return to that first cut. And you will obey." Calling something "Cut and dry", what's done as done, it's clear, is much the same. Calling the listener to return to the cut state unconsciously, such that they will se it as unchangeable and inevitable, and then they will submit.

If they would do this to you...

They clamp the umbilical cord early.

They clamp our cords early.