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• s  so obvious as to be easily solved or decided
  an open-and-shut case

• To many observers in Norfolk, Virginia, at the time, it had seemed like an open-and-shut case a tape of Tice's own confession to the 1997 rape and murder of Navy newlywed .
• At first glance, it appeared to be an open-and-shut case.
• Here are the twists and turns in a case many thought would be open-and-shut: When Zacarias Moussaoui was enrolled in flight school in Eagan, Minn.

News & Articles

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• Amid IRS Mess, Democrats Try To Make A Scandal Out Of Issa
  But an overzealous prosecutor can bungle even an open-and-shut case, and that’s what Democrats hope to portray Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee and the President’s self-styled nemesis.
  June 5, 2013 - The Huffington Post

Quotes

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• Karl Marx in The Australian
  Legally, it's an open-and-shut case. Politically, we don't know,Marx told AFP.