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lead-pipe cinch definition

☆ lead·-pipe· cinch (led′pīp′)

  1. a thing very easy to do
  2. a sure thing; certainty

Etymology: extended (prob. in allusion to the pliability of lead pipe) < pipe, sense

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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