gentlemen's agreement

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In 2022, Switzerland's federal criminal court in Bellinzona cleared the two after accepting their account of a "gentlemen's agreement" for the payment.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025

They’re in a written gentlemen’s agreement, somewhere, that Punchbowl News devilishly described as the “secret three-page addendum.”

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2023

“We made a gentlemen’s agreement that we’ll play and then we’ll figure it out,” Olivas said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2021

That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

From New York Times • May 3, 2015

I'll give Japan the benefit of any doubts I have as to the sincerity with which she enforces this gentlemen's agreement.

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)