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open-and-shut
adjective as in pretty much decided
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And sometimes the open-and-shut of the steam hog had to go pfisty-pfoost, pfisty-pfoost.
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I'm not suspecting anything, mind, but this has got to be an open-and-shut deal, or I don't go in.
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Boys, it's a clean, open-and-shut job—with absolutely nothing to interfere.
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But McNeill's could not afford to be shown up before thirty interested rivermen as running an open-and-shut brace-game.
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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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