every man has his price

Idioms  

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.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

every man has his price

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

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"They say every man has his price: mine is higher than any bid they have yet made—or can make, I hope."

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde

It was a favorite maxim of his—trite yet shrewdly entertained—that money will buy anything, and every man has his price.

From The Law-Breakers and Other Stories by Robert Grant

That every man has his price is the language of Fourteenth Street.

From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

We do not count ourselves among those who believe that "every man has his price," and that "an honest man has a lock of hair growing in the palm of his right hand."

From The True Citizen, How to Become One by W. F. Markwick