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
Now you ought to start in with me just the way Sol Lurchin was advised to when he wanted to tackle Cola Jordan, who had done him on a horse-trade.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
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
But legal experts said the agreement reflects what was likely weeks, if not months, of careful backroom horse-trading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
It didn’t feel like there was horse-trading here.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2026
With the two sides bogged down in horse-trading on tariffs and critical minerals, structural matters have been entirely set aside, Cutler added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
It means that Croatians are bracing themselves for weeks of political horse-trading, to see if a governing coalition can be formed.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024
I had only three left, the other dapple gray, Jenny mule, and "Old Grayhead," the relic of my horse-trading days.
From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Oscar Micheaux
