What Is a Quid Pro Quo (and Is It Always Bad)?

Pizza (and beer) in exchange for the strong backs of friends is a classic quid pro...

A compromise—or a quid pro quo—helped make Hayes the United States' 19th president.

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery (object no. NPG.2019.11)

Harvey Weinstein

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein in a New York City courtroom for his retrial,...

Squid pro quo?

The phrase has become so ubiquitous that a pun version of it found its way into Disney's...

U.S. Pres. Donald Trump shows off a copy of The Washington Post announcing...

Pardoning Nixon

Pres. Gerald Ford in the White House announcing his decision to pardon Richard Nixon...

Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library; photo, David Hume Kennerly

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