open-and-shut

It's not an open-and-shut case as to whether one country's approach is better than another.

Of course, you have to come with an open-and-shut case.

And he was ready to hand the prosecutor an open-and-shut case.

The present case is what the police call an open-and-shut affair.

My own view is that the effect of screen violence in real life isn't an open-and-shut case.

Every day he encountered what appeared to be open-and-shut cases.

So it is not an open-and-shut case that these medications work.

Now this one wasn't open-and-shut, there was nobody running around the streets with her blood on him.

But when it comes to cause and effect, there is often a trap in such open-and-shut thinking.

In the end though, because of the statute, it was a pretty open-and-shut case.

The thing is, though, this isn’t necessarily an open-and-shut case.

"I believe this is what the British call an open-and-shut case," a police spokesman said.

Despite his admissions the prosecution will be far from an open-and-shut case.

He added: "What seemed like a very open-and-shut case clearly is not."

For most newspaper readers, this seemed an open-and-shut murder case.

It would seem to be an open-and-shut case, suicide brought on by ill health.

The cause of the dinosaurs' demise is far from an open-and-shut case.

The police call it an open-and-shut case, and Kirk agrees.

This body doesn't know what to do with an open-and-shut case, much less one that requires digging.

"But if this is such an open-and-shut case, why are we still asking questions?

President Clinton's senior staff kept saying it was a straightforward suicide, an open-and-shut case.

From what I read in the papers, it couldn't be more open-and-shut if they had the homicide on film.

"This is almost an open-and-shut case, I mean, you don't really need to look for more stuff.

But they also said it was an open-and-shut case.

The alternative theory: it's one way you can beat what seems like an open-and-shut case against a client.