horse-trade
Example Sentences
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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 Hillern, Wilhelmine von
