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horsetrade

vb. (context idiomatic English) to negotiate informally, especially when bargain or reciprocal concessions are included, frequently regarding politics

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Einar was trading horses Miles, your grandfather was a great horsetrader here in the valley, and there never was a lazy or a stupid man yet who could see what a horse was made of when he was going off for a few days with a string, he always used to say that the only thing an Arden Pole knew about a horse was he was supposed to look at its teeth.

As I moved from circus to circus—from the Donnert to the Renz to the Busch, back to the Donnert again—I was variously a talker for the midway joints, and for the sideshow, and I worked advance and patch, and I became quite proficient at horsetrading.

Lord Kellos and Trisu's great-great-grandfather did some horsetrading back and forth over the exact boundaries of our holdings, and Lord Rathman gave us the exemption in return for a couple of offsetting concessions from Lord Kellos.