Definition
To have dealings with; to truck with.
Origins
From truck (“dealings”).
In Context
- "You shouldn't have any truck with them. They cheat."
- "I've had no truck with them for some time."
- ""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 will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.""
- "Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding."
- "Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies 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."
- "2020 December 8, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a mythhttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201207-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."
Also Said As
- have truck and trade with