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What does open-and-shut mean?

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Adjective
  1. (informal) simple and obvious; easily decided
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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.
Neither side in this argument has an open-and-shut case, and certainly agreeing with the president's case doesn't make you a fool.
In my opinion, it's an open-and-shut case.
But this isn't an open-and-shut argument, and in any event it leaves open the possibility that some forms of severe child abuse can indeed be punished by the government.
Perhaps one could come up with a crisp legal principle, or a crisp political norm for prosecutorial behavior, that would limit prosecutions to such open-and-shut cases.
The case for optimism is hardly open-and-shut.

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