drive a hard bargain Значение & определение

Примери за drive a hard bargain

• About noon, he was talking to a farmer in his quiet back room, endeavouring to drive a hard bargain with the man, whom a bad season had already rendered poor. 

• He was a man who drove a hard bargain, so it was said. 

• He was highly respectable, but could drive a hard bargain with a poor author, as well as any of his fraternity. 

• They generally came to sell, not to buy, and most of them knew how to drive a hard bargain. 

• We drove a hard bargain.