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What does open-and-shut mean?

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Adjective
  1. (informal) simple and obvious; easily decided
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But McNeill's could not afford to be shown up before thirty interested rivermen as running an open-and-shut brace-game.
In my opinion, it's an open-and-shut case.
The case for optimism is hardly open-and-shut.
I'm not suspecting anything, mind, but this has got to be an open-and-shut deal, or I don't go in.
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.

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