July 19, 2008

Haggle

haggle



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–verb (used without object) 
1. to bargain in a petty, quibbling (吹毛求疵), and often contentious (引起爭論) manner: They spent hours haggling over the [price] of fish. 
2. to wrangle, dispute, or cavil (吹毛求疵): The senators haggled interminably over the [proposed bill].  

–verb (used with object) 
3. to mangle in cutting; hack
4. to settle on by haggling. 
5. Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.  

–noun 
6. the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.  

—Related forms

haggler, noun 


edward-norton01 
Back story: Taking on his breakthrough role in the 1996 courtroom drama "Primal Fear," Norton signed a three-picture deal with Paramount – a fairly common practice for an unknown actor. 

But after he and the studio haggled [for eight years] over what
 

Norton would do to fulfill his contractual obligation, Paramount finally placed him in "The Italian Job" with the threat of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. 


persnickety (snobbish) 
fastidious (painstaking) 
mangle 
haggard (face & eyes)








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