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open-and-shut

adjective as in conspicuous

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Example Sentences

And sometimes the open-and-shut of the steam hog had to go pfisty-pfoost, pfisty-pfoost.

I'm not suspecting anything, mind, but this has got to be an open-and-shut deal, or I don't go in.

Boys, it's a clean, open-and-shut job—with absolutely nothing to interfere.

But McNeill's could not afford to be shown up before thirty interested rivermen as running an open-and-shut brace-game.

But it had been all over in a breath, just an open-and-shut piece of battiness, same as fellers have when they jump a bridge.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to open-and-shut, such as: apparent, assured, clear, clear-cut, conclusive, and easy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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