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have truck with en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From truck (“dealings”).

Meanings

1. (idiomatic, in the negative) To have dealings with; to truck with.
   • You shouldn't have any truck with them. They cheat.
   • I've had no truck with them for some time.
   • "How can I decide?" said I. "You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome." 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 240:
   • Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding. 2000 August 10, The Economist, Central Europe’s sulky conscripts:
   • Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable. 2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446:
   • 2020 December 8, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a mythhttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201207-how-john-lennon-was-made-into-a-myth" in BBC Online Malik eventually tracks down Lennon, living a simple life – in a hut, with a fishing boat called Imagine – away from the spotlight he never had shone upon him, and dispensing nuggets of homespun wisdom. Which is not a portrayal Sheffield has much truck with.

Forms

Synonyms

have truck and trade with