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

I took time to explain how I had made a raise, and about the horse-trade.

From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow

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

There will be horses, as well as political horse-trading, with a carriage procession through Windsor, ahead of a royal salute and military parade at Windsor Castle.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025

Came on a visit of ceremony, with the finest bucks in his band, to get acquainted and do a little horse-trading.

From Dorothy on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond