make the cheese more binding
verbEtymology Cheese can be binding (“constipating”)
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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:
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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.