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Cinch

noun

Any undertaking that is easy to do. Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover.

Stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place. Synonym: girth.

A form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps.

verb

(past & past part. cinched; pres. part. cinching)

Tie a cinch around. Synonym: girth.

Make sure of.

Get a grip on; get mastery of.

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"Cinch" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I'm on a loose end," he communed. "Next time I waft myself to Europe on a steamer I'll bring my mother. It would be a bully fine notion to cable for her right away. I want someone to take care of me. It looks as if I had a cinch on running this hotel gratis. What in thunder ...

— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... a fool, Smith," he laughed. "What's the matter with you? It's a cinch. Go back and forget it." He shot out of the door ...

— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train

... open-and-shut cinch that the answer to the conundrum lies in that silly old black bunch of feathers," declared the other, conviction in his voice. "I looked up all about ravens in our big 'cyclopaedia as soon as I got downstairs this morning; and the more I read, the stronger my mind got that ...

— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... the snow was gone Mlle. Zaretti had discarded the derrick-arm. Urging Calico to his best speed she would grasp the cinch handles and with one light bound land on his well-resined back. Then, as he circled around in an even, rythmical lope, she would jump the banners and dive through the hoops. It was more or less fun for ...

— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford

... around. You get it, don't you? Your friend, in order to prove that the idea of the Play is right, goes out for a job, and proves that he cannot demand Laber and get it." He stopped and spoke with excitement: "Is he a real sport? Would he stand being arested? Because that would cinch it." ...

— Bab: A Sub-Deb • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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