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drive a hard bargain (third-person singular simple present drives a hard bargain, present participle driving a hard bargain, simple past drove a hard bargain, past participle driven a hard bargain)
- To negotiate forcefully.
1949 September and October, “Notes and News: The Windsor Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:Both the G.W.R. and the L.S.W.R. had to pay dearly for the privilege of entering the Royal Borough, for the Prince Consort drove a hard bargain with each.
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- “drive a hard bargain”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “drive a hard bargain”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “drive a hard bargain”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “drive a hard bargain” (US) / “drive a hard bargain” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “drive strike a hard bargain” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.