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ESL Podcast 1146 – Negotiating With a Street Vendor

https://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=17380566#

knock off

lower the price something

pricey

expensive, it cost too much

pass

not to do something

hasty

do something without thinking about carefully, do some quickly

one-of-a-kind

unique, different from anything else

pass up

to decide not to do something.

How about if = What if

throw in

to add something without charge something

two-for-one

you only pay the price of one thing and you get two of that thing

Name your price

You tell me how much you want to pay for it

reasonable offer

a fair price

highway robbery

one person is giving very little money for what he selling

robbery  to steal something from someone

street vendor

a person sells things on the street without a store, a permanent place to sell things.

to make a living

to earn or to get enough money to pay for your expense, your food, your housing, so far

Take it or leave it.

You are telling the person that this is your final offer. This is the only thing that you will accept. If you don’t want it, I’m going away.

Take it     accept my offer

leave it    I’m going to walk away and we are ending our negotiation.

drive a hard bargain

to be very good at getting what you want in the negotiation