Usually means: Clear, straightforward, easily resolved case.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word open and shut:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. open-and-shut: Merriam-Webster
  2. open-and-shut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. open-and-shut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. open-and-shut, open-and-shut: Collins English Dictionary
  5. open-and-shut: Vocabulary.com
  6. open-and-shut: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. open-and-shut, open and shut: Wiktionary
  8. open-and-shut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. open-and-shut: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. open-and-shut, open and shut: Dictionary.com
  11. open-and-shut: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Open and Shut (House): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. open-and-shut: Rhymezone
  14. open-and-shut: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. open-and-shut: FreeDictionary.org
  16. open-and-shut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. open-and-shut: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. open and shut: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. open and shut: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. open and shut: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Open and shut)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of open-and-shut [(informal) simple and obvious; easily decided]

Similar:
free-and-easy, shut-up, openmouthed, clear-cut, flat-out, hard and fast, fold-out, buttoned up, fenced-in, head on, more...

Opposite:
ambiguous, unclear, undecided, unsettled, unresolved

Phrases:
open and shut case, more...

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Similar:
free-and-easy, shut-up, openmouthed, clear-cut, flat-out, hard and fast, fold-out, buttoned up, fenced-in, head on, more...

Opposite:
ambiguous, unclear, undecided, unsettled, unresolved

Phrases:
open and shut case, more...



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