horse-trade
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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
“At the start of the year, they had all sorts of ideas about how to horse-trade and think big,” said Jim Manley, a former senior aide to the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2015
He could wear you down with logic and argument, he could horse-trade and he could flatter.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2014
For there, it is said, no boy is permitted to leave home on a horse enterprise until he has cheated his father in a horse-trade.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry
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
She also defended the lack of detail on who might be in Burnham's cabinet, saying he was not "beholden" to anyone - with no need for horse-trading or deals.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
The horse-trading vote feels more like the norm, which is interesting enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
Mr. Simpson spent little time with his family, owing to certain awkward methods of horse-trading, or the "swapping" of farm implements and vehicles of various kinds,—operations in which his customers were never long suited.
From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
