have truck with

• have truck and trade with

From truck (“dealings”).

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have truck with (third-person singular simple present has truck with, present participle having truck with, simple past and past participle had truck with)

1. (idiomatic, chiefly 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.

   • 2000, The Economist, Central Europe’s sulky conscripts‎:

     Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding.

   • December 8 2020, David Barnett, "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.

• Frequently used in the negative: “to have no truck with”.