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Meanings
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Expressing finality, that that preceding material is meant as final, not subject to amendation or variation.
"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!"
2011, Dominick Ricca, "The Salvation of Satan", in Would You Like to Be White? and Other Stories, Xlibris (self-published), page 403 http://books.google.com/books?id=YVr6Rw8UaioC&pg=PA403&dq=case[…]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.
2007, Ripple Effect, page 13:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A case is closed; specifically, a police investigation or similar is resolved.
The bodies of the deceased were removed from the scene to the Suffolk County medical examiner's office in Hauppauge.[…] As you can see from the report, Nikki Hale was the only one who was impaired. Case closed.
2009, Brad Thor, The Apostle, Atria, →ISBN:
Relateds
end of story · I rest my case · end of · that's that
Translations (8)
ja 一件落着 (a case is closed) · ko 일단락 (a case is closed) · pl sprawa zamknięta (a case is closed) · hu ügy/téma lezárva (a case is closed) · mi kua kēhi (a case is closed) · fr l'incident est clos (a case is closed) · ru де́ло закры́то (a case is closed) · fi loppuunkäsitelty (a case is closed)