Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. persistent, indomitable.

1825		Pierce Egan’s Life in London 20 Mar. 61/2: The Cutting-up tribe will be completly at home, as it is intended to be cut and come again till the visitors are tired of it.
1874		‘Old Calabar’ Won in a Canter I 109: ‘Jim Crow’ is not to be choked off; he is the cut-and-come-again sort, is ‘Jim Crow.’ You will win by half a mile.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Mar. 14/2: On the other hand, plenty of good judges think that Mulua, fit and well as he was on Cup day, could always beat Mr. Pearson’s horse, but that he is not such a cut-and-come-again customer as his famous rival.
1902		Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Nov. 24/1: The Victory is essentially a battler – one of the ‘cut-and-come-again’ sort.
2007		S. Maloney Sucked In 224: Gilpin’s stony-broke and woofing bonkers [...] and he thinks you’re the cut-and-come-again pudding.

2. (Angl-Ind.) unexceptional but adequate .

1843		Bellew Memoirs of a Griffin I 250: His library, not quite so large as the Bodleian [...] but containing, nevertheless, some very good cut-and-come-again sort of books.
1893		Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 28 July 3/2: [A]s a whipping boy for the rest of the Indian army or a financial resource of the ‘cut and come again’ order, the Madras army is getting played out.