Timeline for Can I use the phrase, “open and shut” for other subjects than legal cases?
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| Apr 29, 2015 at 20:31 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Apr 29, 2015 at 20:29 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | Hot Licks | You can open and shut the window. But "open and shut case" is a legal idiom that would only be used (and often is) in other contexts in a metaphoric sense. | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 11:56 | answer | added | Marius Hancu | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 11:41 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Josh61. P.S. After adding the above comment, I found the following answer is from you. It's an elaborate and valuable input. Many thanks. | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 11:36 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Josh61. Could be related, but quite different. I checked the previous question you refered to. It's asking the origin of "open and shut" as an idiom. I'm not asking its etmology. It's obvious. I'm asking its usage and the scope of the word application other than legal implication, which I would like to venture. | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 8:53 | answer | added | user66974 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 8:48 | comment | added | user66974 | Related; english.stackexchange.com/questions/15282/… | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 8:40 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |