have truck with

• have truck and trade with

From truck (“dealings”)

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have truck with

1. (idiomatic) 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.

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