giff-gaff

Na, na! when I was in that way, I played at giff-gaff with the officers: here a cargo taen—vera weel, that was their luck; —there another carried clean through, that was mine.

Chapter XL 1917

Winsome from the broomy ridge could hear the shrill "giff-gaff" [give and take] of their colloquy.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

Na, na! when I was in that way I played at giff-gaff with the officers: here a cargo taen -- vera weel, that was their luck; there another carried clean through, that was mine; na, na! hawks shouldna pike out hawks 'een.'

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Na -- na -- I have pledged my word for your safety, and you must give me yours to be private in the matter -- giff-gaff, you know. '

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

-- One would think our subjects 'lives and goods were all our ain, and holden of us at our free will; but when we stand in need of ony matter of siller from them, which chances more frequently than we would it did, deil a boddle is to be had, save on the auld terms of giff-gaff.

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

Na — na — I have pledged my word for your safety, and you must give me yours to be private in the matter — giff-gaff, you know.’

Redgauntlet 2008

One would think our subjects’ lives and goods were all our ain, and holden of us at our free will; but when we stand in need of ony matter of siller from them, which chances more frequently than we would it did, deil a boddle is to be had, save on the auld terms of giff-gaff.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

But giff-gaff makes us good friends, and so you must just walk to the door with me and pass a word with my aunt, and say neither this nor that about me, and I will forget you ever said Andrew had such a thing as a 'plan' about me. "

A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

Na, na! when I was in that way I played at giff-gaff with the officers: here a cargo taen — vera weel, that was their luck; there another carried clean through, that was mine; na, na! hawks shouldna pike out hawks’ een.’

Guy Mannering 1815