a condition in which modifications remain possible, as with cement that has yet to fully harden; used to indicate flexibility or the opportunity to provide substantial input, as in “We can still change the report structure if we need to, the outline is wet cement”; can presumably be modified to “hard cement” when such changes are no longer feasible; has the opposite sense of baked or crisp, which reference work that has been satisfactorily finalized; see also cement is dry
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