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cinch noun [ sɪn(t)ʃ ]

• an extremely easy task.
• "the program was a cinch to use"
Similar: easy, uncomplicated, not difficult, undemanding, unexacting, unchallenging, effortless, painless, trouble-free, facile, simple, straightforward, elementary, idiot-proof, plain sailing, a walkover, a gift, nothing, easy-peasy, easy as pie, as easy as falling off a log, as easy as ABC, a piece of cake, a cakewalk, child's play, kids' stuff, no sweat, a picnic, a doddle, a doss, a breeze, a pushover, a sitter, a five-finger exercise, a walk in the park, money for old rope, money for jam, duck soup, a snap, easy-breezy, a bludge, a snack, a piece of old tackle, a snip, a piece of piss,
Opposite: challenge,
• a girth for a Western saddle or pack of a type used mainly in Mexico and the western US.
• "they watered the horses and loosed the cinches"

cinch verb

• secure (a garment) with a belt.
• "my cut-offs are cinched by a belt"
• make certain of.
• "his advice cinched her decision to accept the offer"
Origin: mid 19th century (in cinch (sense 2 of the noun)): from Spanish cincha ‘girth’.


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