horse-dealing

But the blunder was not ignoring the economy, the blunder was the horse-dealing and “we won so shut up” approach to the health care bill.

Matthew Yglesias » Was Health Reform a Political Blunder? How Could We Know? 2010

They are said to be good drivers of bargains, but to be honest and just in their transactions, and even in horse-dealing to resist those thievish tendencies which would seem, for some undiscovered reason, to be almost inseparable from that branch of traffic.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

A wonderful story is told, on good authority, of a piece of amateur horse-dealing accomplished by the youngest son but one, Francis, at the mature age of seven: how he bought on his own account (it must be supposed with his father's permission) a pony for £1

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

As usual the sale was prefaced by a prayer: hard bargaining, sharp practice, and much or little swindling, inseparable from horse-dealing, must all of it, first of all, be watered by prayer.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Returning to the town, we halted at the top of the common to watch the farmers of the neighborhood at their horse-dealing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Two of them fell and rolled from behind the trees, and we saw that they were the Creole called Croupier, and another of our horse-dealing friends.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

There is opportunity for a little horse-dealing too, and many good polo ponies to send home or play in the tournaments have been picked up in this way.

Argentina from a British Point of View Various

There was Fergusson, reputed to have half a century of ranching and horse-dealing in the Argentine; 'Forty-nine,' said Fowke, in a delighted whisper, assessing his age.

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

He did not know that gipsies were very fond of horse-dealing, and never missed an opportunity, and he had not reflected that caravans were always on the move and took a deal of drawing.

The Wind in the Willows 1908

In the matter of horse-dealing Bostil's Ford was as bold as the thieves.

Wildfire Zane Grey 1905