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open-and-shut


  • 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.

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