horse-trade
verb[I]
oftendisapprovinguk/ˈhɔːs.treɪd/us/ˈhɔːrs.treɪd/to haveunofficialdiscussionsin whichpeoplemakeagreementsthatprovidebothsideswithadvantages:
（私下里进行的对双方都有好处的）讨价还价Sheunderstoodthat you can't always have everything youwantand that you have to horse-trade sometimes.她明白，你不可能总是拥有你想要的一切，有时你必须讨价还价。
Heconstantlyhad tohorsetradeto getresults.他不得不不断地讨价还价才能得到结果。
See
horse-trading
- He waswidelybelievedto have horse-traded with the paper'seditor.
- It would bebetterif we horse-traded, because that really is howbusinessgets done.
- In other democracies, theyfigureout how tohorsetradeandcompromise.
Debate & discussion
- agent provocateur
- bargainer
- bat
- bat around
- broker
- closure
- cloture
- consult
- dialogue
- discursive
- parley
- polemic
- polemical
- post-debate
- powwow
- provocateur
- re-explore
- reason withsomeone
- special pleading
- talk turkeyidiom