have truck with

Meanings

verbhave truck with (third-person singular simple present has truck with, present participle having truck with, simple past and past participle had truck with)

present singular third person has truck with · participle present having truck with · participle past had truck with · past had truck with

idiomaticTo have dealings with; to truck with.
I've had no truck with them for some time.
5 more examples
You shouldn't have any truck with them. They cheat.
"How can I decide?" said I. "You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome."
1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 240
Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding.
2000 August 10, The Economist, Central Europe’s sulky conscripts
Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446
2020 December 8, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a mythhttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201207-how-john-lennon-was-made-into-a-myth" in BBC Online Malik eventually tracks down Lennon, living a simple life – in a hut, with a fishing boat called Imagine – away from the spotlight he never had shone upon him, and dispensing nuggets of homespun wisdom. Which is not a portrayal Sheffield has much truck with.
Synonyms: have truck and trade with