all sewed up
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"What else could they do when we had the case all sewed up?"
From Time Magazine Archive
And so, when the nation's leaders, who fortnight ago seemed all sewed up by the Nazis, showed signs of stiffening, if only for a historic instant, the people were hysterically happy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gambler handled himself with difficulty, offering in explanation: "I'm all sewed up in bandages of one kind or another."
From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach
I'd got the event all sewed up in a parcel, and now this young feller-me-lad 'as to give me the knock.
From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
They put me in a work-day rig, as usually is done— A wampus and short overalls all sewed up into one.
From City Ballads by Will Carleton
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