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"open-and-shut" Definitions
  1. immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.

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After a few minutes of grunting and heaving, the two men swing it open and shut, open and shut, to test that it is firmly fastened.
I don't think it's an open and shut case yet.
It seemed like an open and shut case — at first.
This should have been an open and shut case. 4.
On its face, it seems like an open and shut case.
Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin thinks the case is open and shut.
To casual observers, it would seem like an open-and-shut case.
After reviewing their evidence, the case seems to be open-and-shut.
Your mouth is slapping open and shut like a pair of castanets.
Is the case against MBS being behind the hack open and shut?
" "It's by far not even close to being an open-and-shut case.
The study generated provocative data — but far from an open-and-shut case.
She would open and shut her mouth, making sure no sound came out.
Yes, but: Samsung isn't alone in pursuing an open-and-shut approach to phones.
After the wealthy older man murders his wife, the case seems open and shut.
Apparently, the case was open and shut Monday when they both walked into court.
"We heard the toilet lid, like, open and shut a few times," she said.
"I thought it would be a fairly open-and-shut case," Mr. Williams said.
But it's becoming clear most Republicans see this as an open-and-shut case.
"This trial is not open and shut, your honor," Brafman told Judge Kiyo Matsumoto.
One doll has whited-out eyes, from where her open-and-shut eyelids stopped responding.
But the provision is ambiguously worded enough that it's not an open-and-shut case.
Don't give the bad guys an open-and-shut reason to just wait you out.
"But I would think that this is such an open-and-shut case," he said.
And that might be a pretty open-and-shut case if things were that simple.
Let's just say, it's also no longer satisfying to flip open and shut this phone.
" Orin Snyder, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said: "This is an open-and-shut case.
"It's open and shut that federal candidates can't solicit contributions from foreign donors," he said.
A textbook example of insider trading, the Stewart case would once have seemed open-and-shut.
But even if everything James Comey says is true, is an obstruction case open and shut?
He's turned prosecutors flat-footed in trials where it seemed open-and-shut against his client.
FS1's 'Undisputed' co-host isn't ready to say this is an open and shut case.
David Rosenfelt's "Open and Shut," featuring his lawyer and dog lover Andy Carpenter, who is hilarious.
It was hard for me to sleep until I heard the cat flap open and shut.
For the Democratic leadership in the Senate, it was an open-and-shut case: Franken must go.
She almost seems to burst from the train, as though alive, when the portals open and shut.
So there's a case — not an open-and-shut case, but a reasonable one — for optimism here.
It turns out that a few key molecules act to open and shut periods in brain development.
Merlino's mistrial demonstrates how no case— repeat—no case is ever cut and dry, open and shut.
If the allegations are sustained, there would be an "open-and-shut" case for impeachment, he said.
It's hardly an open and shut case, which Andy Greenberg broke down shortly after the indictment was unsealed.
But in the years that followed, that open-and-shut case would turn into something far more complex.
Often, it turns out, the eternal question of what makes something funny is an open-and-shut case.
Snyder, who said the case against Cosby was not open and shut, said he was unaware of #MeToo.
"It is an open-and-shut case that he has met the criteria for impeachment," Steyer told KQED.
It should be an open-and-shut case, but Cora's apparent lack of motive leaves everyone on edge.
Mooney's attorney advised him to accept a plea bargain because the case against him was open and shut.
"It's open and shut," Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA School of Law and First Amendment expert, told CNN.
She estimates she sent dozens of reports to the company and thought this was an open-and-shut case.
A shooting back in April in Fresno, California, seemed like an open-and-shut case of a hate crime.
Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama argued for patience when spoke to reporters after the open-and-shut first round.
But the experiences of transgender people on Facebook suggest that many of these assumptions aren't so open-and-shut.
Darden says that even though it seems pretty open-and-shut, a lot of Black people think Simpson is innocent.
I think that if you read the report, [the ineffectiveness and immorality of torture] is an open-and-shut case.
When we were told to adjourn to the deliberation room, I once again thought this would be open and shut.
As far as DMCA takedown requests go, Blippi's is about as open-and-shut of a case as you'll get.
With that amount of blood evidence, that amount of hair, fiber, timeline, everything — to me, it's an open and shut case.
His claim to immortality looks like an open-and-shut-case: Pete Shelley was a musical genius hiding in plain sight.
If we had just accepted her confession, no matter how far-fetched, we would have had an open-and-shut case.
Otis recorded video of himself doing the deed ... so this is as close to 'open-and-shut' as you're gonna get.
"Four weeks of jury deliberations confirm that this was far from an open-and-shut case," she said in a statement.
There are moments, like the shot of a door blowing open and shut, that however they defy understanding are quietly heartbreaking.
The jury must consider paper trails, international financial transactions, and reams of documents — this is not an open-and-shut case.
There are reasons to doubt the outcomes of cases, like those of Scott and Roof, that appear to be open-and-shut.
It's not necessarily an open-and-shut case that Kavanaugh disagrees with the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision on the Nixon tapes.
I'd sit there on the couch watching TV, and rather than biting my nails, I'd be clicking the phone open and shut.
It's not an open-and-shut case, but thanks to studies like this, we're getting increasingly close to solving this fascinating mystery.
Source: None other than acclaimed filmmaker and Mandalorian actor Werner Herzog Credibility: It seems to be a pretty open-and-shut case.
Furthermore, you have a White House with so many conflicting voices that it makes Rashomon look like an open-and-shut case.
It's designed to open and shut, while Mr. Wentworth's variously cantilevered installations, for all their airs of fragility and impermanence, are solid.
The case for impeaching President Richard Nixon was not open and shut, at least as far as the American public was concerned.
To tell you the truth, I think it would have been kind of an open-and-shut case in a way for me.
Given all of the available information at this point, it is clear that there is simply no open and shut case on impeachment.
Editorial Let's be clear: The moral case against President Trump's plan to uproot and expel millions of unauthorized immigrants is open-and-shut.
"This is by no means an open-and-shut case," Cramer said, arguing that is why the stock bounced back during Monday's session.
Democrats, however, are growing frustrated with Mueller failing to wrap up an investigation that many of them believe is an open-and-shut case.
Based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies was initially going to be an open-and-shut miniseries.
But there are still several competing theories about the ribbon out there, so it's not yet an open-and-shut case at this stage.
Ultimately the work needs to be ambiguous enough to resist an open-and-shut interpretation, because it's boring when art is super-easy to reconcile.
Someone on the Noisey desk just described as Scar "so sexy for an animated lion" so I guess this is an open-and-shut case??
Outside, mechanical gates clanged open and shut; announcements blared from loudspeakers; officers shouted back-and-forth through the thick, bulletproof glass surrounding the control center.
Inconvenient at times, this rule was even comical when I would open and shut a computer each time my kids entered and left a room.
Yet, without a specific Supreme Court ruling on the matter or an amendment to clarify the Constitution, "there is no open and shut information," she said.
Amazon didn't include a button that automatically pushes open the door, so you'll need to pull the door open and shut with its cheap plastic handle.
Snyder admitted he knew ZILCH about the mounting allegations against the comedian heading into the trial and didn't think it was "an open-and-shut" case.
Until recently, the options for upper-limb prosthetics were woefully crude, essentially a hook that clasps open and shut—a design that predates the Civil War.
When they said no to the pipeline, it should have been an open-and-shut case for any nation that truly saw the Wet'suwet'en as equals.
Republicans have warped the record, told all kinds of lies, and insisted that this open-and-shut case was cooked up as a partisan witch-hunt.
Definitely. "As I logged onto the airplane Wi-Fi to post this monstrosity I saw the foot reach over to open and shut the window," Char wrote.
While the Los Angeles police called Kennedy's murder an open and shut case at the time, new evidence suggests that things were not exactly what they seemed.
But based on the evidence currently known from the accuser's criminal complaint, it does not appear that this is going to be an open and shut case.
For those people, the wall is more like a gate they can open and shut with ease — and I'm so fucking jealous of them I could scream.
He thought it was so open-and-shut that he asked his supervisor for more work, he said, wondering how this could possibly fill up his days.
From just the White House-released summary, the Ukraine scandal is a mandatory open and shut case for the impeachment, but it is also so much more.
But the messaging campaign could drag out and obfuscate the investigation, morphing what some Democrats see as an open-and-shut case into something longer and muddier.
The constitutional questions posed in the travel-ban cases really weren't open-and-shut, and the lower courts' rulings had a tendency to make them seem that way.
The inside features several interlocking gears that allow the product to open and shut with ease and let users interact with the device at various states of unfold.
Visitors to the piece can see how each layer of structure affects each other with the rotating alloy tiles designed to open and shut depending on the temperature.
Such a list of accomplishments makes an open-and-shut case for Mr Murray's place in the tennis Hall of Fame, but it fails to tell the whole story.
But the judge, Larisa Semenova, rejected the arguments that the former minister had been framed and sided with prosectors, who called it an open-and-shut case of corruption.
And, judging by the fervent chatter on sports radio and stories in the press, he succeeded in resurrecting debate in what initially seemed a definitively open-and-shut case.
He hunches, as if still steeling himself against the cold, and the wind bangs open and shut the window that brings dim, blue light into the small, shabby room.
When I tried to get more insight as to why they were flagged, the platforms simply told us it was an open-and-shut case with nothing to debate over.
Long after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and our country declared that we are all created equal, I was looking at an open-and-shut case of racial discrimination.
Why couldn't Narcos have been an open-and-shut, 20-episode story of Pablo Escobar's rise and fall, alongside the story of the men and women who brought him down?
Naz is interrogated by Detective Dennis Box (Bill Camp), a glum loner whose eyes tell him that the case is open-and-shut, even as his gut says something's off.
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It has literally never been the case, prior to the last maybe 22016 or 22014 years, that it wasn't an open-and-shut case — yes, you should go to college.
LONDON — What appeared to be an open-and-shut case involving a jogger in London who pushed a woman in front of a bus is suddenly — and surprisingly — open again.
On March 11, former Solicitors General Neal Katyal and Paul Clement published an article in the Harvard Law Review that argued that Cruz's eligibility was an open-and-shut case.
This sounds like it should be an open-and-shut case—Schröder seems like a good, young guard that's improving—and it would be, except that he's actually regressed this season.
Many of the outside experts Gizmodo spoke to were highly critical of the study, saying it's not an open-and-shut case as the researchers are making it out to be.
"It's less of an open and shut case than other Obamacare regulations," said Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber, who was a consultant for the Obama administration's health care push.
If it was such an open-and-shut case, the jury would have come back with a guilty verdict on the first -- or, at the latest, second day -- of deliberations, right?
In Total Control Mode, which lets you control the dinosaur like a puppet, you can move Blue's eyes around, open and shut her eyelids, or whip her body around in any direction.
"Markets are too complex to believe than any indicator can be an open and shut case once that indicator becomes widely discovered and gamed by trillions of dollars worth of trades," Brown said.
If this were just an isolated case of a person with a public-facing job posting inappropriate material onto the internet, it would be an open-and-shut case that she should be fired.
And this case's dismissal raises the question: In 2019, if a crudely photoshopped image of an infant with a bright red swastika plastered on their forehead isn't an open-and-shut case, what is?
But this open-and-shut version of events conflicts with what diligent reporters in the aviation press have uncovered in the weeks since Asia, Europe, Canada, and then the United States grounded the planes.
Three factors prevent CNN's suit from being an entirely open-and-shut case: On the other hand, the larger context is almost certainly that the White House doesn't particularly care whether they win this case.
But the reminder did prompt me to dial back my critical reflex for a moment—to realize that my rebellion against my meditation app wasn't a simple, open-and-shut example of the superiority of unplugging.
For the authorities, the trial of those involved in the Awamiya protests was an open and shut case -- the men had confessed, and "justice was served," in the words of one Saudi official to CNN on Tuesday.
But for the 21 young plaintiffs who are suing the federal government for its failure to protect them — and all of us — from global warming-related harm, it's an open and shut case involving basic constitutional rights.
The hardware feels great, too, with solid-feeling stainless steel and glass on the outside and a wonderfully textured back that's nice and grippy, which is essential for not dropping it while flipping it open and shut.
John Paul II, pope from 1978 to 2005, seemed to see communion for the divorced as an open-and-shut case; couples including at least one divorcee could only take the Eucharist if they lived as brother and sister, he implied.
It wasn't that it was especially loud, more like if I tuned in, I could hear a new kind of nuance to the sound, like the swish of blood through my ecosystem, or the snapping of valves open and shut.
It's important to keep this in mind when trying to understand Naz's actions in "The Beach," because nearly every decision he makes after finding Andrea dead — and a few decisions before, too — point to an open-and-shut murder conviction.
Without treatment, it can lead to rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, in which the immune system attacks the heart valves — intricate flaps of tissue that must open and shut properly 100,000 times a day for the heart to work normally.
Other Democrats, especially moderates in swing districts who face tough reelections, have pushed to keep the focus narrowly on Ukraine and Trump's actions there, arguing it's a simpler story to explain to Americans and a more open-and-shut case.
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They all were: sweating and shivering in turns as the doors to the bar slid open and shut on the fogged up night, as the hyperloop stop out front poured revelers and mourners alike into the same place at the same time.
Remember — in the beginning, Cochran was adamant about O.J.'s guilt before deciding to pursue the racial angle, and Darden was unwilling to believe that race had anything to do with what he perceived to be an open-and-shut criminal case.
Ultimately the goal of The Fight isn't to critique the ACLU or trace its history; it's to show that the organization's work, and the work of countless others who litigate on behalf of civil and human rights, is never open-and-shut.
They looked for inspiration in nature (cobra hoods), in machining (milling chucks), and in everyday objects (bicycle pumps); they studied how a tripod clamps open and shut, how ski bindings clip in and out, searching for ideas that might replace the old-fashioned screw mechanism.
"I was watching the news and was taking the news of a tornado with a grain of salt until I heard the wind — and my back door slamming open and shut," Eddie Whitehead said on Tuesday as he waited for an insurance adjuster in Dayton.
Of course, arrestees will ask the courts to set them free, but the case should be relatively open-and-shut against them: They will have committed a contempt in refusing to turn over subpoenaed materials, and the House has the power to hold contemnors.
It may seem like an open and shut case for a president who has repeatedly called for tariffs, but this case is distinguishable in that it may well cause massive economic damage to the wider domestic solar industry and a number of associated jobs.
Bloom insisted it was an open-and-shut case of illegal revenge porn, and hours later, Chyna would emerge victorious from a Los Angeles courtroom with a temporary restraining order against Kardashian, after also alleging that in addition to cyberbullying, he was physically abusive and controlling.
Anyone with a television—OK, so I do sometimes watch—saw Trump tell Lester Holt that he fired James Comey, explicitly because "this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story," as open and shut a case for obstruction as you can get.
What this does suggest is that the Valentine's Day request to Comey — combined with Trump's reported request that Coats intervene in the Flynn investigation, Coats's nondenial of that report, and his remarks to Lester Holt — form a plausible though not open-and-shut case of obstruction.
Fred Westerbeke, the chief investigator, said that some evidence was being withheld on Wednesday to avoid alerting suspects, and also that more information was needed to build an open-and-shut case against individual suspects and to diagram the chain of command behind the order to deploy and launch.
" Manus adds, "Rape and sexual assault is such an open and shut thing, as it should be … We really thought it would be interesting to filter this subject of enthusiastic sober consent through all of our characters and figure out what that would look like on a campus.
A pig roast has become something of a ritual to mark special occasions at Il Buco and this is a big one: New York restaurant years are like dog years, and reaching 25 in a city where restaurants open and shut with fatal regularity is no small accomplishment.
The video is pretty mesmerizing on its own — there's something almost soothing about watching all the phones fold open and shut in perfect synchronization, but more importantly, the stress tests are giving us what might be the best look yet at what the Galaxy Fold actually looks like when its folding.
The legal challenges to the earlier travel bans were never open-and-shut: despite the plaintiffs' success at the district and circuit court levels, the Supreme Court's five-justice conservative majority would have been difficult to persuade that Mr Trump's order was an illegitimate exercise of presidential animus toward Muslims.
Yet in a corruption case that is almost comically open and shut—at least to those who dwell in what used to be called the reality-based community—this revelation amounted to another grain on the growing mountain of evidence that the president used American foreign policy for personal political gain.
It's not so much that Vicky Shick knows how to string together seemingly disparate movements — examples from her latest dance include snapping fingers, bent knees that open and shut rapidly, and a purposeful walk interrupted by a fall to the floor — but that she can shape them into a coordinated flow.
A New York Subway Tape (1985), was shot at a time when a subway ride could be a frightening experience, when the doors between cars slammed open and shut at every curve and everyone sat warily attentive but trying not to make eye contact with anyone else at all costs.
As the city and the subway system deteriorated in subsequent decades, riding between cars became part of the chaotic subterranean landscape: Trains were covered with graffiti and broke down often, passengers smoked cigarettes or worse, and doors between cars banged open and shut of their own accord, practically inviting trespass.
More worryingly, a handful of states besides California and Illinois that have recently tried to ban these defenses have failed—and though legislation is in progress in others, bills that haven't passed are a case study in the bureaucratic red tape that can bog down what should be all but an open-and-shut effort.
While none of these women have presented an open-and-shut case that would be sure to convince a jury in a criminal case, all three have offered corroborating evidence to support their claims — from old therapist notes to friends and classmates who confirmed that they heard about the allegations to witnesses who could verify their stories.
Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) ultimately won the race would seem to make an open-and-shut case that the polls were wrong.
As a result of the outdated practices that VA operates within, many managers felt that it was not worth their time and energy to terminate poor-performing employees, and they became discouraged when the Merit System Protection Board overruled the termination of several Senior Executive Service leaders for abusing their authority, in what appeared to be an open-and-shut case.
Young was refused official permission to film in the building, so her project took on a guerilla air that she put to excellent conceptual use—the women of the courthouse, whether advocating for their clients or sitting in judgment, are sighted as though under surveillance, spied voyeuristically through peephole-like windows and glimpsed in the temporary gaps of doors swinging open and shut.
And while we don't know the reason for the acquittals in what seemed like an open-and-shut case of guilt, it comes against a backdrop of deep antipathy in parts of the West toward the environmental regulation of the hundreds of millions of acres of rangeland, forests and national parks managed by the federal government on behalf of all Americans.
The obstacles are weighted for difficulty and competitors progress from easiest to hardest, as follows: They must sit down on and stand up from a low IKEA couch; walk a short slalom; walk up a ramp, open and shut a door, and descend another ramp; walk along a number of unevenly spaced stepping stones; walk across two angled platforms; and, finally, walk up and down a flight of stairs.

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