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

Well, he ought to be pleasant," said Bartley, "he's just beaten me on a horse-trade.

From A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

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

In any case he will have to do more horse-trading with allies than has been his style thus far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

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

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

Here on Saturdays the people had come together during half a century for sport and horse-trading and to talk politics.

From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox