cut a deal

Idioms  

1. Offer or arrange an agreement or compromise, as in The administration is hoping to cut a deal with Japan. This expression uses deal in the sense of “business transaction.” [Colloquial; 1970s]

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Example Sentences

While David Guetta DJ’d, the Blue Owl executives cut a deal to acquire IPI Partners, an investment firm that owned and operated big data-centers for Amazon and Microsoft.

From The Wall Street Journal

Reino Hayhanen, who’d cut a deal to disappear into the government’s witness protection program, made a dramatic entrance in dark sunglasses, his hair, eyebrows, and new mustache dyed deep black, and gave devastating testimony about secret codes and dead-drops.

From Literature

For example, it cut a deal to manage and brand a $500 million golf and resort project in Oman.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 2011 the Vatican cut a deal with the regime to send the Black Spring prisoners into exile.

From The Wall Street Journal

Neither do I, though the business-minded decision would be to cut a deal.

From Los Angeles Times