every man has his price

1. Any person can be bribed in some way, as in They had trouble persuading her to join, but when they offered her a car—well, every man has his price. This cynical observation was first recorded in 1734 but may be much older, and it applies to either sex.

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But on another day he came back smiling sideways and confided to Mama that every man has his price.

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While it is a saying that every man has his price, Albee was unusual in literally knowing his.

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“The man who said ‘Every man has his price’ never met Duncan Hines,” writes Hatchett at the beginning of the book.

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"Oh, every man has his price," rejoined Mr. Radford, whose opinion of human nature, as the reader may have perceived, was not particularly high.

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