open-and-shut

How To Use open-and-shut In A Sentence

• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Our lawyer thinks that we have an open-and-shut case.
• Cerezzi says that, outside of a confession, this is about as open-and-shut as they come. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
• The murder was an open-and-shut case.
• Young detectives, if not the older ones, prefer cases that are not open-and-shut. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
• 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.
• You would think that confronted with such an open-and-shut case of missed opportunities, Peacock would immediately comply with Parks's request.
• To read the local press, it was an open-and-shut case.