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case closed

1. Said after a given question, debate, or mystery has been solved or answered. So you see, it was the dog who ate the blueberry pie, not me. Case closed! A: "Case closed!" B: "Now, hold on! There are still some key inconsistencies you refuse to take into account." It was Miss Scarlet in the Conservatory with the wrench—case closed!
2. The aforementioned decision, outcome, resolution, or situation is final, with no ambiguity or room for variation or amendment. The only way we'll be able to keep the company open is to undertake a 30% reduction in staff, case closed. My wife had an affair and our marriage is over. Case closed. No, we're not friends anymore. I have no room in my life for anyone who treats me as badly as he did—case closed.
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Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America.
They were hustled through the immigrant assimilation process, given a year to get a job, get an apartment, get with it, case closed by the social agencies created to help these displaced persons, and off they went sailing into modern America, heralded as just another hard-working, assimilating ethnic group, DPs no more.
"Case Closed," by Edward Defort, covered the nearly four-year investigation into the murder of a Wisconsin funeral director and a mortuary student intern and the shock waves it sent through the magazine's readership, which are the nation's funeral directors.
Case closed. Oh, sorry, is the rest of the world okay with that?
"I consider the case closed," he told the Monitor, because the danger of an overly personal relationship with sources "is too acute."
Most observers of the Religious Right assumed CASE closed its doors when Robertson hired Sekulow to run the ACLJ, but in fact, CASE still exists.
Four snap-over latches with a recessed design help to keep the case closed securely as well as three padlock tabs for even more added security.
NEW YORK-Move over Coach and Gucci bags, here come Targus, Mobile Edge, Case Closed and Clark & Mayfield.
An inquest was held and the case closed. The official cause of death was found to be an accident or suicide and it was also found that no one else was responsible for the cause of death.
Case closed, say the police--but Ishii's family and friends are far from convinced.
CASE CLOSED: Leslie grabs his bag; DRIVEN OUT: Then he storms off; BAG OF NERVES: Abi's not happy
Nonetheless, most of the hundreds of physicists who have been conducting the RHIC experiments don't consider the case closed, say members of those teams.
With this case closed, there is no immediate challenge to the constitutionality of the parsonage allowance.
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