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make the cheese more binding en · VERB

Etymology

Cheese can be binding (“constipating”)

Meanings

  1. (US) To clinch a deal or agreement.
    • Why bother the title company with opening an escrow, making a search, when your deal might “flop”? Wait until you get that additional deposit to make the “cheese more binding.” 1951, Harold Arthur Mitchell, How to Make Money in the Real Estate Business, page 51:
  2. (US) To add complication to a situation.
    • After all that the car wouldn't start and, to make the cheese more binding, Jack had taken my jumper cables.

Forms

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made the cheese more binding Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made the cheese more binding Tense=Past lexicographic
makes the cheese more binding Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
making the cheese more binding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic