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open-and-shut case

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an open-and-shut case

A legal case that is clear-cut or straightforward. With all the evidence against the defendant, I expect this to be an open-and-shut case. Isn't this an open-and-shut case? They found his fingerprints all over the crime scene! I know this seems like an open-and-shut case, but they've got a very crafty defense lawyer who should make things interesting.

See also: an, case

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open-and-shut case

a simple and straightforward situation without complications. (Often said of criminal cases where the evidence is convincing.) The murder trial was an open-and-shut case. The defendant was caught with the murder weapon. Bob's death was an open-and-shut case of suicide. He left a suicide note.

See also: case

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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New Delhi [India], Dec 24 ( ANI ): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prashad's conviction in the fodder scam, an open-and-shut case of "brazen corruption", didn't come as a surprise.

"Lalu Prasad's conviction surprises no one in this country because the fodder scam is an open-and-shut case of brazen corruption carried out in defrauding the public exchequer.

BJP says fodder scam, a case of 'brazen corruption'

Regulations section 1.132-7 (a) (2) seemed to make this an open-and-shut case in the employers' favor.

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