Tvrditi pazar
English translation: to drive a hard bargain
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| 11:25 Jan 26, 2022 |
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|  Selected response from: Elio Verbanac Croatia | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | playing hard to get |
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| 4 +1 | to drive a hard bargain |
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| 4 | haggling hard / hard bargaining |
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16 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1playing hard to get Explanation: https://vukajlija.com/tvrditi-pazar/27252 https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play hard to get If someone plays hard to get, they deliberately make it difficult for someone to obtain something that they need from them. Only a few days ago, the Social Democrats were playing hard to get as the CDU tried to get them into coalition talks. Developers queued up to buy the property in 1995 but Turner played hard to get, waiting for better offers. |
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1 day 3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1to drive a hard bargain Explanation: Mislim da je ovo bliže pravom značenje, dakle htjeli su za sebe izvući što je moguće veće pogodnosti. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drive%20a%20hard%20bargain https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/to-drive-a-hard-bargain |
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3 days 2 hrs confidence:
| tvrditi pazar haggling hard / hard bargaining Explanation: other possible options, the same register as the rest of this text. more bland / neutral: prvo (su se) femkali i tvrdili pazar pred izbore = first they kept playing / pretending to be uninterested and then just before the voting started negotiating hard Typical political horse trading, nothing to see there ... |
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