Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 59/@comment-26363928-20160323215629/@comment-5264252-20160323225717

I wasn't referring to your main point with what I said, I was referring to the "inch closer to victory". :P Your actual point is decent, although it still isn't as accurate to the actual idiom in question. An inch is larger than a pinch, retrospectively, and it means that we'd take more than what's given. The "but" would mean the inch part counteracts against the pinch part. If anything, what we're doing right now is "to give a pinch, take an inch" thing, since he's giving us a small hint, but we're taking more out of it than what was probably intended. A bit of a stretch of a comparison, but etiher way.