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case_closed
case closed
English
Phrase
- The above is meant as final, not subject to amendation or variation.
- 2007, Ripple Effect, page 13 :
- […] he would no more tell a grunt in uniform what he was really thinking than he'd drop his pants and wag the weasel at a formal diplomatic function.
- Some things were simply not done by professionals. Full stop. Case closed.
- 2011, Dominick Ricca, "The Salvation of Satan", in Would You Like to Be White? and Other Stories, Xlibris (self-published), ISBN 9781456863555, page 403 :
- "And I your God say no angel of mine will ever marry a female human being. And that is final!"
- "Positively final?" I asked in a firm, steady voice.
- "Yes! Doubly positively final! Case closed!"
- 2007, Ripple Effect, page 13 :
- Used other than as an idiom: A case is closed; specifically, a police investigation or similar is resolved.