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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

... bodies of ten thousand novels lie between me and that first one. I have not read it since. Ten Incas of Peru with ten rooms full of solid gold could not tempt me to read it again. Have I not a clear cinch on a delicious memory, compared with which gold is only Robinson Crusoe's "drug?" After a lapse of all these years the content of that one tremendous, noble chapter of heroic climax is as deeply burned into my memory as if it had been ...

— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison

... there's swimming to be done and it's a cinch there will be, he's going to need all ...

— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower

... Kells was tightening the cinch on her saddle while he spoke. His voice, his manner, the amiable smile on his intelligent face, they all appeared to come from sincerity. But for those strange eyes Joan would have wholly believed him. As it was, a half doubt troubled her. She remembered the character Roberts had given this man. ...

— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

... cinch that you have made one of the greatest practical inventions of the day,' Tony said, forgetting Mamie Sue entirely and so did Douglass, as ...

— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess

... to myself. "You big stuff, you now weigh two hundred and fifty pounds! In another year or two you will weigh two hundred and seventy-five pounds! You are uncomfortable and heavy on your feet, and you are gouty and wheezy; and it's a cinch you'll die in a few years if you keep on this way. You know all this fat is caused by an excess of food and drink, and you know it can be taken off by a reduction in those fatmakers. Are you going to stick round here so fat you are ...

— The Fun of Getting Thin • Samuel G. Blythe

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