Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Serbian term or phrase:
Tvrditi pazar
English translation:
to drive a hard bargain
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Bogdan Petrovic
Jan 26, 2022 11:25
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Serbian term
Tvrditi pazar
Serbian to English
Other
Government / Politics
U toj strancu su se na lokalnom nivou prvo femkali i tvrdili pazar pred izbore, da im se obeća najveći mogući broj odbornika.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | to drive a hard bargain |
Elio Verbanac
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| 4 +1 | playing hard to get |
Slobodan Kozarčić
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| 4 | haggling hard / hard bargaining |
Daryo
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Proposed translations
+1
1 day 3 hrs
Elio Verbanac
Croatia
Croatia
Works in field
Croatia
Quality & Experience
Native in: Croatian 
, Serbo-Croat
Works in: Croatian to English, English to Croatian, Bosnian to English, and 7 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
12
Selected
to drive a hard bargain
Mislim da je ovo bliže pravom značenje, dakle htjeli su za sebe izvući što je moguće veće pogodnosti.
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Comment: "Hvala!"
+1
16 mins
Slobodan Kozarčić
Serbia
Serbia
Native in Serbian
Serbia
900 films/500 medical rep/two books/tech
Native in: Serbian (Variant: Montenegrin ) 
, Bosnian
Works in: English to Serbian, English to Bosnian, Serbian to English, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
4
playing hard to get
https://vukajlija.com/tvrditi-pazar/27252
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play hard to get
If someone plays hard to get, they deliberately make it difficult for someone to obtain something that they need from them. Only a few days ago, the Social Democrats were playing hard to get as the CDU tried to get them into coalition talks. Developers queued up to buy the property in 1995 but Turner played hard to get, waiting for better offers.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play hard to get
If someone plays hard to get, they deliberately make it difficult for someone to obtain something that they need from them. Only a few days ago, the Social Democrats were playing hard to get as the CDU tried to get them into coalition talks. Developers queued up to buy the property in 1995 but Turner played hard to get, waiting for better offers.
3 days 2 hrs
haggling hard / hard bargaining
other possible options, the same register as the rest of this text.
more bland / neutral:
prvo (su se) femkali i tvrdili pazar pred izbore
=
first they kept playing / pretending to be uninterested and then just before the voting started negotiating hard
Typical political horse trading, nothing to see there ...
more bland / neutral:
prvo (su se) femkali i tvrdili pazar pred izbore
=
first they kept playing / pretending to be uninterested and then just before the voting started negotiating hard
Typical political horse trading, nothing to see there ...
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