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How to use open-and-shut in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word open-and-shut? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
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.
You would think that confronted with such an open-and-shut case of missed opportunities, Peacock would immediately comply with Parks's request.
And because there is no such thing as an open-and-shut case, you may get the wrong guy.
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.
His dodgy memoirs are ultimately more thrilling than the open-and-shut casebook of Sherlock Holmes.
In my opinion, it's an open-and-shut case.
The case for optimism is hardly open-and-shut.
Sanctions are not a simple open-and-shut case.
Examples from Classical Literature
But McNeill's could not afford to be shown up before thirty interested rivermen as running an open-and-shut brace-game.
But it had been all over in a breath, just an open-and-shut piece of battiness, same as fellers have when they jump a bridge.
I'm not suspecting anything, mind, but this has got to be an open-and-shut deal, or I don't go in.
Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.
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