Haggle

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to bargain in a petty, quibbling (吹毛求疵), and often contentious (引起爭論) manner: They spent hours haggling over the [price] of fish. 

2. to wrangle, dispute, or cavil (吹毛求疵): The senators haggled interminably over the [proposed bill].  



–verb (used with object) 

3. to mangle in cutting; hack. 

4. to settle on by haggling. 

5. Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.  



–noun 

6. the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.  



—Related forms

haggler, noun 





　

Back story: Taking on his breakthrough role in the 1996 courtroom drama "Primal Fear," Norton signed a three-picture deal with Paramount – a fairly common practice for an unknown actor. 



But after he and the studio haggled [for eight years] over what 



Norton would do to fulfill his contractual obligation, Paramount finally placed him in "The Italian Job" with the threat of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. 





persnickety (snobbish) 

fastidious (painstaking) 

mangle 

haggard (face & eyes)