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Meanings of bad bargain in English

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Usage of bad bargain in English
1
One has to make the best one can of a bad bargain.
The Eustace Diamonds
2
I've taken your bad bargain and put it into a money-making shape.
The Phantom Herd
3
It's a bad bargain, but we've got to go through with it.
Out of the Primitive
4
And after ten years' service it isn't a bad bargain, I added.
Falk: A Reminiscence
5
All you can do is to make the best of a bad bargain.
The Golden Silence
6
I soon saw that I had not got a bad bargain.
Original Short Stories — Volume 07
7
Stephen Whitelaw knows he'll make no bad bargain in marrying you.
Fenton's Quest
8
And Mr Mortimer Gazebee did not altogether make a bad bargain.
Doctor Thorne
9
She, however, continued to make the best of a bad bargain.
The Black-Sealed Letter / Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cock...
10
You ought to congratulate yourself on having got off a very bad bargain.
The Diary of a Nobody
11
Many a bad bargain has Finn made but never a worse than thou.
The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Irel...
12
Well, well, I must, I see, make the best of a bad bargain.
The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2)
13
She descended with relief, feeling that she had made not a bad bargain.
The Auction Block
14
After half an hour's haggling we struck a very bad bargain.
A Tramp's Sketches
15
He may not be such a very bad bargain, after all.'
The Golden Calf
16
Even in his rage, Noles realized it was a bad bargain.
Speaks the Nightbird
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Bad bargain across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common