horse-trade
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But he offered himself as a rising young protégé, and they taught him how to pass and block legislation, stage filibusters, build coalitions and horse-trade behind the scenes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
Illustrating the horse-trade underway, a board presentation mentioned that $260 million will “be reimbursed to Sound Transit” as credits for transit to use state right of way, and for fish passage improvements.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
All were Democratic presidents who knew how to wheedle, bargain, glad-hand, joke, rib and horse-trade.
From US News ● Aug. 8, 2016
He could wear you down with logic and argument, he could horse-trade and he could flatter.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2014
But that was quite different from a horse-trade, and my employers are no animals to be sold, so they found that they had come to the wrong person.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
He stopped his tour, tracked down the performer, horse-traded one of his kites for a glider, and took it back to the United States.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 13, 2019
Others horse-traded with friends who have HBO: I’ll cook dinner if I can watch at your place.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2010
It didn’t feel like there was horse-trading here.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2026
In any case he will have to do more horse-trading with allies than has been his style thus far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
He firmly rejected suggestions of the Open's potential return to Turnberry being part of any horse-trading at a time of trade talks between the US and UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
But what no one noticed amid the horse-trading was that Roberts had laid a slow-motion trap.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
Children loved him, and he sneaked away from work to tell them improbable stories of sea-faring and horse-trading and bears.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
