horse-trade

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

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 Wilhelmine von Hillern

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

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

He firmly rejected suggestions of the Open's potential return to Turnberry being part of any horse-trading at a time of trade talks between the US and UK.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025

But what no one noticed amid the horse-trading was that Roberts had laid a slow-motion trap.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

If we put this deal over right we don't need to bother about horse-trading.

From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn