The phrase "clinch of" is not correct and should not be used in written English.
This is likely a mistake for the phrase "clinch with," which means to complete something or reach a final agreement. Example: After months of back-and-forth, the couple finally managed to clinch a deal with the seller.
Too well is it called a clench, for we do feel an involuntary musculation, a clinch of recognition as though our buttocks truly had squeezed.
The eyes – or the ears, if we're listening to something read aloud – seem crucially involved in conveying that inward clinch of critical conviction, just as in attending to paintings or music.
This is what it should have sounded like: a slightly awkward but affectionate clinch of austere European synths and sickly American pop sugar, singing about falling in love with a Tinder profile.
After the blissful final clinch of Cary Grant and Alexis Smith in a movie that exalts the Porters' regulation Hollywood-perfect union, "De-Lovely" shows the composer turning to his wife and remarking, "If I can survive this, I can survive anything".
The clinching of the deal ends months of uncertainty for Terra Firma.
The theft and recovery of the Mona Lisa were, in Sassoon's view, the clinching of her international celebrity.
General Manager Steve Phillips wondered aloud before the game about the propriety of celebrating the clinching of a wild-card berth.
Feisty, talented and ambitious, Ms. McIver was more than eager to shake off the warm clinches of her family and the chilly, intractable racism of the South.
The Jets' clinching of a second straight playoff appearance Sunday represented a feat accomplished only four other times in the history of the franchise.
Despite everything, it remains the most trusted image that we have for the clinching of an erotic deal: the zinger of our desires.
He bettered that last season with the dramatic last-minute clinching of the league title- City's first in 44 years.
