have truck with | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,chiefly in the negative)To have dealings with; totruckwith.Synonym:have truck and trade withYou shouldn'thaveanytruck withthem. They cheat.I'vehadnotruck withthem for some time.1890February,A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, inThe Sign of Four(Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett[…],→OCLC,page240:"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 willhavenotruck withit, so you can drive home your knife and welcome."2000August 10, The Economist,Central Europe’s sulky conscripts‎[1]:Warsaw Pact governmentshad little truck withpacifists, but their successors are more understanding.2007March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, inNature‎[2], number446:Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, andhave no truck withsubspecies 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.2020December 8, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a myth[3]" in BBC OnlineMalik 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 Sheffieldhas much truck with.

Examples:

EN: Wouldn't have truck with that... room clerk ghoul to get let into Charlie's, rather sleep in the fucking hallway, that's the kind of man he is.
ES: No habrá querido problemas con ese posadero por entrar a lo de Charlie y prefirió dormir en el pasillo. Así es él.
ID: Tak akan masalah dengan itu petugas kamar yang membiarkan Charlie masuk, Lebih baik tidur di lorong, untuk pria macam itu.
EN: No, I wouldn't have truck with the devil over nothing like that.
ES: No hubiera negociado con el diablo algo así.
ID: Aku tak punya truk dengan iblis seperti itu.
EN: Stating that he resigned to the congress on Saturday, he refused joining the political party that will have truck with the BJP and will reveal the party he is going to join soon.
TE: శనివారం ఆయన విలేకరుల సమావేశంలో మాట్లాడుతూ తనకు వైసీపీ నుంచి పిలుపొచ్చిందని, త్వరలోనే ఆ పార్టీలో చేరబోతున్నట్టు తెలిపారు.

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