BARGAIN FOR


Meaning of BARGAIN FOR in English

or bargain on

If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.

The effects of this policy were more than the government had bargained for...

PHRASAL VERB: usu with brd-neg, V P n

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