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

All three were released in 2021 after Meng cut a deal with US prosecutors.

From BBC

A firm he backs cut a deal with the state-run oil company, making it one of the few North American companies with contracts to operate in Venezuela, but it has since been stumped by sanctions that forbid it from doing business there.

From The Wall Street Journal

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