open-and-shut
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Our reviewer, Steven Poole, wrote that “the book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
And it’s difficult to envision four members of the current court agreeing to do so given the open-and-shut failure of Davis’ main argument.
From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025
It is not an open-and-shut case at all.
From Salon • May 15, 2024
Sounds like an open-and-shut case, but German director Ilker Çatak argues that the rules of integrity are as flimsy as the rules of surviving a horror flick.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024
“I just meant that it was pretty open-and-shut with your dad. No one questioned whether it was right or wrong.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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