(slang) something regarded as easy to accomplish. From
lead-pipe
cinch a doubly sure or doubly easy thing.
Lead pipe refers to a Midwestern and Western US
form of galvanized
iron pipe (which looks as if it were
lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a
short length of this so-called
lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the
work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (
lead-pipe) cinched. He gets to
IV, it's a pipe.
-Auditing by Lists (16 Apr. 64) n. a
cinch, any
task easily performed or accomplished. The
origin of this
term is uncertain, however, in one
account it is
thought to
originate from the
term pipe dream, suggesting something as magically done as in a wishful
dream.
(slang) something regarded as easy to accomplish. From
lead-pipe
cinch a doubly sure or doubly easy thing.
Lead pipe refers to a midwestern and western US
form of galvanized
iron pipe (which looks as if it were
lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a
short length of this so-called
lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the
work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (
lead-pipe) cinched.
Theory-this becomes a pipe, because everything is well
codified and well straightened out.
certainty; as in it's a pipe. Perhaps a contraction of
lead-pipe
cinch, an
absolute certainty, but possibly
derived from
pipe dream, any fantastic
notion,
hope or story, originally from the
opium pipe, which makes all things seem easy.
(slang) something regarded as easy to accomplish. From
lead-pipe
cinch a doubly sure or doubly easy thing.
Lead pipe refers to a Midwestern and Western US
form of galvanized
iron pipe (which looks as if it were
lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a
short length of this so-called
lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the
work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (
lead-pipe) cinched.
(slang) something regarded as easy to accomplish. From
lead-pipe
cinch a doubly sure or doubly easy thing.
Lead pipe refers to a midwestern and western US
form of galvanized
iron pipe (which looks as if it were
lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a
short length of this so-called
lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the
work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (
lead-pipe) cinched.
(slang) something regarded as easy to accomplish. From
lead-pipe
cinch a doubly sure or doubly easy thing. See also
lead-pipe
cinch in this glossary.