How To Use Open-and-shut In A Sentence
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That would seem to make it an open-and-shut case.
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His dodgy memoirs are ultimately more thrilling than the open-and-shut casebook of Sherlock Holmes.
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It is the abrupt open-and-shut of the vocal cords that (through a process known as biofeedback) apparently charges the higher harmonics with increasing energy, resulting in separation between up to six simultaneous tones.
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He's obviously guilty it's an open-and-shut case.
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It’s just that the murder case against this Dorinda Dillon is so open-and-shut, which is fine with me.
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The murder was an open-and-shut case.
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an open-and-shut case
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If stock charts were the equivalent of eyewitness testimony, St. Joe Co. would have an open-and-shut case against the companies responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Sneak Play
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Like ombudsmen everywhere, what I need is an open-and-shut case for my Sunday column, something that I can turn into a journalism lecture that doesn't sound too much like a jealous fit.
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The EU's Directive is anything but an open-and-shut case.
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And because there is no such thing as an open-and-shut case, you may get the wrong guy.
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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.
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He's obviously guilty it's an open-and-shut case.
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You'd think that match officials getting decisions right would be just about the most fundamental thing for a sport — and that any attempt to improve decision-making accuracy would be a non-negotiable, open-and-shut, black-and-white case.
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It looked like an open-and-shut case until the judge, suddenly and without explanation, announced that he was dismissing the allegations.
Kill the Irishman
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In Bahrain, where many Shiites openly nurture cultural and religious ties to Iran, the Saudis saw the case as even more open-and-shut.
The New Cold War
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New England's Wes Welker seems to have an open-and-shut case for being the best slot receiver in league history, catching 554 passes in the five seasons since he joined the Patriots.
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If the police get their hands on the notes and the weapons they'll have an open-and-shut case for the murder each member confessed to.
TIES THAT BIND
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Large-scale suits by individual shareholders have been rare in Japan up to this point, but lawyers say the apparently open-and-shut nature of the Olympus case could help re-shape investors' willingness to enforce their rights.
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To read the local press, it was an open-and-shut case.
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You would think that confronted with such an open-and-shut case of missed opportunities, Peacock would immediately comply with Parks's request.
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These are straight open-and-shut cases which police should have little trouble prosecuting since both the complainant, in the name of the council, and witnesses in buyers of the plots, are available.
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Young detectives, if not the older ones, prefer cases that are not open-and-shut.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The murder was an open-and-shut case.
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Cerezzi says that, outside of a confession, this is about as open-and-shut as they come.
THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
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Our lawyer thinks that we have an open-and-shut case.
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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.
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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.
