bedroom deal

Example Sentences

• "Susan, eager to mend match, makes bedroom deal with Howard Stickney, slick owner of Whizaway, to have super-horse beat Fanny, thus break spell, and leave her free to marry ex."
• "It may be that there will be a certain amount of bedroom deals between individuals. The Yemen or Saudi Arabia may decide in a bedroom to swop a little gum arabic for copra from the Philippines, but I do not see that taking any very extensive or massive form."
• "Mercifully it seems that the steam is finally going out of the commercial conference carnival with tired executives now realising that they are not going to miss out on some new insight, or pass up a chance to conclude a trans-hemispherical bedroom deal, by staying home rather than traipsing from one convention centre to another."
• "There were bar deals, bedroom deals, vote-trading deals, fast talk, double-talk, and lots of downright lies, which, when spoken from the lips of high-salaried oil lobbyists, were taken as gospel until proven otherwise."
• "Today, on "Face the Nation," a Presidential historian wondered why the American people have not shown more concern about this most secret administration which cuts bedroom deals with multinational corporations like the oil companies, big Pharma, and other giants like Bechtel, at the expense of small businesses and the working man."
• "He moans about the fees but in fact the bedroom deals mean he probably saves the fees several times over every year whilst staying in London."