英语词汇lead-pipe cinch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lead-pipe cinch. A cinch, borrowed from the Spanish cin- cha, is a saddle-girth used on horses or a girth used on pack mules. Because a well-fastened cinch holds the saddle securely so that it won’t slip off, about a century ago the word cinch be- came a natural synonym for something sure and easy. Cinches, however, are usually made of leather, canvas, or braided horsehair, not lead pipe. So the expression a lead-pipe cinch is something of a mystery. One guess is that the phrase is from the underworld. Criminals using lead-pipe blackjacks, accord- ing to this theory, found it a cinch to dispatch their victims and a cinch to dispose of the “blackjack” should police near the scene of the crime stop them and frisk them for weapons.

词汇	lead-pipe cinch
词源	lead-pipe cinch. A cinch, borrowed from the Spanish cin- cha, is a saddle-girth used on horses or a girth used on pack mules. Because a well-fastened cinch holds the saddle securely so that it won’t slip off, about a century ago the word cinch be- came a natural synonym for something sure and easy. Cinches, however, are usually made of leather, canvas, or braided horsehair, not lead pipe. So the expression a lead-pipe cinch is something of a mystery. One guess is that the phrase is from the underworld. Criminals using lead-pipe blackjacks, accord- ing to this theory, found it a cinch to dispatch their victims and a cinch to dispose of the “blackjack” should police near the scene of the crime stop them and frisk them for weapons.
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