cookie-cutter

Noun

 * 1) * 1916, ad in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 33, page 87:
 * Let Us Send You a Trial Package
 * Ten cents (stamps or coin) will bring you a One-Cake package, enough for a nice “company cake," and we will include a 10c Dromedary Cookie-Cutter and a Cook Book of Choice Cocoanut [sic] Recipes.
 * The Hills Brothers Co. Dept. B, 375 Washington Street New York
 * The Hills Brothers Co. Dept. B, 375 Washington Street New York

Adjective

 * 1)  Having a similar appearance or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means, often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.
 * The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.
 * I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.

Usage notes
First used only in attributive position and without degrees of comparison (from the 1920s); then used freely in predicate position (from the 1990s). Some speakers avoid using it in the predicate position.

Translations

 * Dutch: gietvormig,, , modelvormig
 * German:, , schablonenartig,
 * Polish:, sztampowy
 * Russian: