cinch
Something that’s a cinch is incredibly easy. It’s a cinch to eat a meticulously decorated cake — it’s much more complicated to bake and frost one.
Cinch is one of those words with many meanings that seem unrelated at first glance. The original 19th century North American definition, which is still used today, is “saddle girth,” the straps that keep a horse’s saddle in place. As a verb, cinch means “to pull tight,” the way you’d cinch a belt. Informally, to cinch is to make absolutely certain: “It’ll cinch her college decision if that school offers a scholarship.”
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stable gear consisting of a band around a horse’s belly that holds the saddle in place
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synonyms:
girth-
type of:
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saddlery, stable gear, tack
gear for a horse
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saddlery, stable gear, tack
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tie a cinch around
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get a grip on; get mastery of
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make sure of
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any undertaking that is easy to do
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synonyms:
breeze, child’s play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover-
types:
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doddle
an easy task
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type of:
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labor, project, task, undertaking
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
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doddle
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a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps
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type of:
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all fours, high-low-jack
card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
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all fours, high-low-jack