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Cinch   /sɪntʃ/   Listen
Cinch

noun
1.
Any undertaking that is easy to do.  Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover.
2.
Stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place.  Synonym: girth.
3.
A form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps.
verb
(past & past part. cinched; pres. part. cinching)
1.
Tie a cinch around.  Synonym: girth.
2.
Make sure of.
3.
Get a grip on; get mastery of.





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"Cinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... lowering. In other words, the new Primary Law has begun to do business. Every downtrodden Mokus owing $800 on a $500 House is honing for a Chance to Hand it to somebody wearing a Seal-Skin Overcoat. From now on, seek Contentment, Rural Quietude, and a cinch Rate of 5 Per Cent. ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade
... could be monopolized and hold the trust up; but our raw material is perfectly safe—farms growing smaller, farms isolated, and we fixing the price. It's a cinch." ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... nothing of manicuring. Speaking by and large, they only got their thumbs wet when doing one of three things—taking a bath, going in swimming or turning a page in a book. Washington probably was never manicured nor Jefferson nor Franklin; it's a cinch that Daniel Boone and Israel Putnam and George Rogers Clark weren't and yet it is generally conceded that they got along fairly well without it. But as the campaign orators are forever pointing out from the hustlers and the forum, this is an age calling for change and advancement. ...
— Cobb's Anatomy • Irvin S. Cobb
... Craven's spectacles in his machine. It was easy to get the stuff. The force field enables a man to reach out and take anything he wants to, from a massive machine to a microscopic bit of matter. It was a cinch to get ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak
... Uncle Sam with hearty emphasis, "we surely do owe them something, and that's a cinch. Let's ...
— The French Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins


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