1 to make someone decide what to do after a lot of thought or discussion -- 使下定决心；使敲定；使确定
2 the position two people are in when they are holding each other tightly in their arms, when fighting or showing love -- （打架时的）扭抱；（表示亲热时的）拥抱
There was a phrase in the explanatory note to that order when it was made that clinches my point.
The suggestions are at present the subject of negotiation and the matter is not yet clinched.
I should like to give a very short relevant quotation which absolutely clinches the matter.
The argument that clinches the debate on the fixed link is this.
The final negotiations about the unfreezing of those assets clinched the deal and led to their release.
I am told that in many cases it was the offer of a house that clinched the deal.
I say that out of courtesy to my noble friend because at first sight his illustration is a clinching one.
I do not believe that there is a prospect of it going elsewhere, but still negotiations continue and the deal has yet to be clinched.
