Brewer's: Give and Take

(policy). One of mutual forbearance and accommodation.

“[His] wife jogged along with him very comfortably with a give and take policy for many years.” —Hugh Conway.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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