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bargain for

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bargain for
vb
(intr, preposition) to expect; anticipate (a style of behaviour, change in fortune, etc.) he got more than he bargained for
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? bargain for
vi +prep obj (inf: = expect) → rechnen mit, erwarten; I hadn’t bargained for thatdamit hatte ich nicht gerechnet; I got more than I bargained forich habe vielleicht mein blaues Wunder erlebt! (inf); (in argument also) → ich habe vielleicht eins draufbekommen! (inf)


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She always made a bargain for it, by holding up, as a statement of its just price, one finger less than the merchant held up, whatever his number might be.
And on the rulers turned I my back, when I saw what they now call ruling: to traffic and bargain for power--with the rabble!
Moreover they had Grip in company; and when they must otherwise have changed the guinea, it was but to make him exhibit outside an alehouse door, or in a village street, or in the grounds or gardens of a mansion of the better sort, and scores who would have given nothing in charity, were ready to bargain for more amusement from the talking bird.
 
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