VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Give and Take

Meaning:

Negotiations, the process of compromise

Examples:

  • This job, Bob, it's a lot of give and take.
  • This might be a good time to point out, Howard, that friendship requires a certain give and take.
  • Dexter's allowed to have a private life, but is it too much to ask for a little give and take?
  • This give and take is the dialogue that happens.
  • However, politics is a question of give and take.
  • In my experience, you have to have give and take.
  • There should be some give and take in life.
  • As always, just to give and take on your own terms.
  • Only one thing can give and take life like that.
  • As I say, it's all a question of give and take.