make the cheese more binding

verb

To clinch a deal or agreement.

“After all that the car wouldn't start and, to make the cheese more binding, Jack had taken my jumper cables.”

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Meanings

verbmake 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)

present singular third person makes the cheese more binding · participle present making the cheese more binding · participle past made the cheese more binding · past made the cheese more binding

  1. USTo 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. USTo 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.

Origin

Cheese can be binding (“constipating”)

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APA

make the cheese more binding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/make%20the%20cheese%20more%20binding

MLA

“make the cheese more binding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/make%20the%20cheese%20more%20binding. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “make the cheese more binding,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/make%20the%20cheese%20more%20binding.

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