It used to be such a clincher to say, when one wanted to enforce a point by indicating an impossibility, "I will eat my boots unless"etc., etc.

That clincher has gone to the place whither good clinchers go, forever.

That clincher has gone to the place whither good clinchers go, forever.

If he mildly denies that he is any such person, the proper course is to call him all the unpleasant names over again, adding, by way of clincher, that he is popularly supposed to have murdered his grandmother.

"I then dropped the clincher.

Confutation N. {ant 478} confutation, refutation; answer, complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution^, invalidation; exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu quoque argument

Something to make us sureto give us a clincher?

Shortly after this, on the anniversary of my honoured old master, Zachariah Pigtail's birth, when we were allowed to strike work at noon, I determined, as a dernier resort, as a clincher, sir, to act the genteel, and invite Miss Lucy, in her furs and falderals, to accompany me to the Exhibition of Pictures.

You don't imagine that she knows of any larger force anywhere in the neighbourhood?" "She can't know of any, for there ain't any," was the clincher of the rustler; "or, if there is, she can't get it here in time to do Asbury and the rest any good.

I wished the harness had not broken, as I feared it would put a clincher on my being allowed out driving alone in future.

But the little one came back with a clincher: "Mamma," she declared solemnly, "I am a sick woman, and I want to see my minister.

As a clincher, the mother said: "There is no reason at all why you should be afraid.

" A Clincher.