gentlemen's agreement

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Leverkusen had a gentlemen's agreement with Alonso by which he could leave if one of this former clubs came calling, a door open to Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Real.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

“We made a gentlemen’s agreement that we’ll play and then we’ll figure it out,” Olivas said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2021

That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

From New York Times • May 3, 2015

He described a gentlemen’s agreement of sorts between Krahun and North Korean officials.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2013

The pressure of necessity might keep the States together for a time, yet there is no disguising the fact that the Articles of Confederation formed nothing more than a gentlemen's agreement.

From The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Farrand, Max