Monday, June 29, 2009

Hagglers

Someone who haggles or quibbles in making a bargain or coming to terms; a middleman; one who buys of the country-folk and sells in the city market.

"Twenty shillings more, twenty shillings less, is not the thing I stand upon. I'se no haggler, gadswookers!"

Sir John Vanbrugh, Aesop (1697).

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