clincher• It's a statement that tends to produce a condescendingsmile, but in any discussion it is usually a clincher.• And this, I think, was the finalclincher.• The realclincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pumpmuck.• But while Mills put them ahead, the game was not safe until Tommy Wright's clincher three minutes from time.• This latter piece of logic was the clincher and he dropped the idea as soon as he sobered up, the following week.• Johnson's home run was the clincher for the Twins.• The clincher came when we went to buy our Christmas tree last week.