open-and-shut

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.