make the cheese more binding

English

Etymology

Cheese can be binding (“constipating”)

Verb

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)

1. (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.”

2. (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.