hard bargain

Example Sentences

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But teapot refineries, clustered in China’s Shandong, a province sitting on the lower reaches of the Yellow River, are likely to drive a hard bargain.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You drive a hard bargain,” she said.

From Literature

The hard bargain of public education has always been that it seeks to do the greatest good for the greatest number of kids, meaning it rarely offers perfection for individual children.

From Los Angeles Times

By preventing creditors from attaching to Iraq’s oil shipments, the country was able to drive a hard bargain.

From Barron's

Since they haggle on behalf of health plans that collectively enroll hundreds of millions of Americans, these PBMs have considerable leverage, and should theoretically drive a hard bargain and win enormous discounts.

From Salon