open-and-shut case
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open-and-shut
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.pən.ənˈʃʌt/us/ˌoʊ.pən.ənˈʃʌt/
An open-and-shut problem or legal matter is easy to prove ...
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case
noun
uk/keɪs/us/keɪs/
a particular situation or example ...
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What has happened to the present commissioner would, in most employments, be anopen-and-shutcaseof unfair, constructive dismissal.
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Like everything else in education, it is not anopen-and-shutcase.
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To the layman, it must seem almost anopen-and-shutcasethat a pilot flew through a mushroom cloud and subsequently developed various ailments.
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That is a perfectly ordinary claim and anopen-and-shutcaseof negligence.
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If there is anopen-and-shutcaseof fault, it is absurd that the judge should not be allowed to consider it at all.
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In anopen-and-shutcase, he has only to point to the facts and show that an action was plainly unreasonable and could not be justifiable.
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He said that it was anopen-and-shutcaseof hybridity.
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We are not dealing with anopen-and-shutcase.
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Therefore, this is not anopen-and-shutcase, in which the only question is whether the action taken was in breach of the rules.
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So there is anopen-and-shutcasethat they should open and close the debate.
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I think it is foolish to suppose that in the case of everybody who is picked up in highly suspicious and dangerous circumstances, it is anopen-and-shutcasestraightaway.
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It could be an applicant with a rock-solid, cast-iron,open-and-shutcasewho is forced to argue their way through a completely implausible and vexatious defence mounted by the respondent.
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This seems to be anopen-and-shutcase.
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