make the cheese more binding - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Cheese can be binding (“constipating”)
make the cheese more binding (third-person singular simple present makes the cheese more binding, present participle making the cheese more binding, simple past and past participle made the cheese more binding)
- (US) Clinch a deal or agreement.
1951, Harold Arthur Mitchell, How to Make Money in the Real Estate Business[1], page 51:
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.”
- (US) Add complication to the situation.
After all that the car wouldn't start and, to make the cheese more binding, Jack had taken my jumper cables.