strike a bargain

Verb

strike a bargain (third-person singular simple present strikes a bargain, present participle striking a bargain, simple past struck a bargain, past participle struck a bargain or (rare or archaic) stricken a bargain)

1. To enter into a bargain; to agree upon the conditions of a sale or other transaction.
   • And they gladly embraced the treaty, and struck a bargain with him [Judas Iscariot], that he should have thirty shekels to deliver him [Jesus] up without much noise,1659, Henry Hammond, chapter 22, in A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, The Gospel according to S. Luke, page 257
   • My horse was soon produced, and in fine we struck a bargain. Nothing now remained but to pay me, and he accordingly pulled out a thirty pound note,1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 14, in The Vicar of Wakefield, volume 1, London: F. Newbery, page 139

   Synonyms:

   make a deal