hard bargain

Idioms and Phrases

see under drive a hard bargain .

Example Sentences

I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain.

From The Daily Beast

There was no other way out of it, and I can't blame the fellow for making a hard bargain and sticking to it.

From Project Gutenberg

They all thought me merely shrewd, a sharp trader driving a hard bargain, as they would have done in my place.

From Project Gutenberg

But the Frenchman, seeing the plight in which we were, was disposed to drive a very hard bargain.

From Project Gutenberg

Peace-at-any-price men would have a hard bargain in him as their candidate.

From Project Gutenberg

The usurer at all times drives a hard bargain, and what bowels he has are not those of compassion.

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