Cinch

Definitions

1. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
2. A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
3. An RCA connector.
   Europe
4. Something that is very easy to do.
   informal
5. Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
   informal
6. A firm hold.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question⟳.”

“We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.”

“The job was a snap⟳. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.”

“As a matter⟳ of fact, from the look⟳ of Elmer's shoulder, it wasn't a cinch that he would ever pitch again.”

“You've got the cinch on him. You could send⟳ him to quod, and I'd send⟳ him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang⟳ him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia.”

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