cinch

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Although it must have looked like a cinch, the enemy wasn't taking any chances whatsoever.

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  1. noun A girth for a pack or saddle.
  2. noun A firm grip.
  3. noun Something easy to accomplish. See Synonyms at breeze1.
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  • A cinch is the strap that holds a saddle securely atop a horse, and thus cinch makes a good metaphor for something on which we have a firm grip. —  The Word Detective
  • Although it must have looked like a cinch, the enemy wasn't taking any chances whatsoever. —  Mercenary
  • If you've got the fur coat and the goggles on your cap, you can walk or ride on a transfer, and folks'll take it as a cinch that your bubble's back in the garage bein' fitted with a new set of hundred-dollar tires. —  Torchy
  • Sometimes the saddle had only one "cinch" or girth, generally two, one of which reached well back under the flank. —  Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • I'll stake my word on it it's a cinch--or death. —  The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon
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cinches ·  three-ring ·  pillion ·  loose-leaf ·  cincture ·  cantle ·  girth ·  surcingle ·  red-bordered ·  polymeric ·  swaddle ·  quirt
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Spanish cincha, feminine of cincho, belt, from Latin cīnctus, from past participle of cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Spanish cincha, feminine, a girth, girdle, also cincho, masculine, later L. cingula, Middle Latin also cingla, feminine, cingulum, neuter, later English cingle, a girdle: see cingle.
  2. from cinch, n.
 

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