something for something
Example Sentences
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The Latin phrase 'quid pro quo' – meaning something for something – simply denotes an exchange.
From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2019
In fact, all change involves loss, and yet life itself is change – we are always giving up something for something else.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2013
On the verge of oblivion and the end, he had been snatched back by relenting Fate, which requires something for something given when laws are overriden and doom defeated.
From Northern Lights by Parker, Gilbert
The evil of the spoils system is not that one gets something for something,—it is that one gets something for something less, or for nothing.
From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
It is not the substitution of something for something else of the same nature; it is the substitution of right for wrong.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
