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horse trade

noun

a shrewdly conducted exchange, as of favors or objects, usually resulting from or accompanied by very close bargaining.
an exchanging or trading of horses.

horse-trade

[ hawrs-treyd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

, horse-trad·ed, horse-trad·ing.

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

There are a bunch of juicy details in between, but I ended up getting that car in a horse trade.

He would express a willingness to horse-trade with every member.

She has beat me on many a horse trade, that woman; and I always go back to try it again.

The situation is similar in the difference between cheating in a horse trade and cheating about other commodities.

All's fair in a horse trade, an' friends didn't orter swap horses widout they kin stand the shkinnin'.

They both remembered that Hennard was close by at the time of the quarrel over the Horse-trade.

We were assured that bicycles were to destroy the horse trade entirely, yet horses now bring double what they did before.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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