drive a hard bargain

drive a hard bargain (third-person singular simple present drives a hard bargain, present participle driving a hard bargain, simple past drove a hard bargain, past participle driven a hard bargain)

1. To negotiate forcefully.

• uncompromising

• “drive a hard bargain”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “drive a hard bargain” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “drive a hard bargain”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “drive a hard bargain” (US) / “drive a hard bargain” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “drive strike a hard bargain” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.