What is the idiom for this meaning?
What is the common English idiom to express a meaning that everything can be discussed and compromised if you treat me with manner, and I will not surrender if you treat me without manner.
Just like the idiom for the meaning that if you don't work hard, you will gain nothing is -- No Pain, No Gain
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Hi It doesn't look as if anyone is coming up with a contemporary idiom. It may be that there isn't one at the moment The best I can do is 'jaw-jaw, not war-war'. This is attributed (in various forms) to British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, mid-twentieth century.
- Hi It doesn't look as if anyone is coming up with a contemporary idiom.
- It may be that there isn't one at the moment The best I can do is 'jaw-jaw, not war-war'.
- This is attributed (in various forms) to British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, mid-twentieth century.
- Unless the person you are speaking with, or writing for, has some knowledge of this, it will almost certainly fall flat as an idiom, I think Best regards, Dave
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It doesn't look as if anyone is coming up with a contemporary idiom. It may be that there isn't one at the moment
The best I can do is 'jaw-jaw, not war-war'. This is attributed (in various forms) to British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, mid-twentieth century. Unless the person you are speaking with, or writing for, has some knowledge of this, it wil
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