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I think that it is not close/near but close/shut that is being used here. To close a deal, see Aramis' post, is to complete it. as in "He wasn't going to buy the expensive model but I agreed to free delivery and that closed the deal."



You are right, Zed, but Belmarduk, you and Elizebeth Creith are wrong.
You two are not salesmen and never have been. "A salesman is an it that stinks". All politicians are salesmen and all salesmen are reprehensible con men who are joined at the hip by their lies. You and Elizebeth are something else; neither of you would sell your soul for a buck.

But the guy who wrote the book that Callithump quotes is.
The "approach" he speaks of is just that: a gambit calculated to preclude any deliberation on the part of the "mullet".*

* a "mullet" is just one of the many terms that con men call their victims here in the South in order to dehumanize them so they can feel less bad about their slimy greed.