horse-trade
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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
It was a suit between two farmers who had had a disagreement over a horse-trade.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne
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
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
Why--if nobody tried to cheat, there wouldn't be any more horse-trading!
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
