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I learnt this phrase - "quid pro quo" today, can you help me frame a sentence using it?

Posted - April 10, 2017

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  • Quid pro quo was the price for a quickie in the pre-decimal era.
      April 10, 2017 8:11 PM MDT
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  • Lol
      April 10, 2017 8:12 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Ok the word quickie caught my I;))
      April 10, 2017 8:50 PM MDT
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  • It tends to do that :) is the same in any language lol
      April 10, 2017 8:59 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Ha ha;))
      April 10, 2017 10:41 PM MDT
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  • 1268
    I only answer questions like this for a quid pro quo.
      April 10, 2017 8:22 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Yay...I wanted this response;))
      April 10, 2017 8:51 PM MDT
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  • In the US Congress, seldom does anything happen just because it is the right thing to do; there is almost always a quid pro quo involved.
      April 10, 2017 9:07 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    You are brilliant, dear Virginia!
      April 10, 2017 10:42 PM MDT
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  • 'natch....
      April 10, 2017 11:43 PM MDT
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  • Is this a type of sushi roll?
      April 10, 2017 10:08 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    We can make it I guess!
      April 10, 2017 10:42 PM MDT
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  • 78
    LEARNT is not a word!!!  I had to finally speak up out of frustration after reading TOO many times on the internet of the WRONG spelling of a simple spelling word of  LEARNED  being spelled as LEARNT by supposed smart intellects......just how I cringe when a supposed smart liberal talking head on TV pronounces supposedly as supposaBLY This post was edited by Redsox16 at May 10, 2017 9:56 PM MDT
      April 11, 2017 12:38 AM MDT
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  • You done learnt us good.
      April 11, 2017 9:04 AM MDT
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  • "Learnt" is indeed a word. Learnt and learned are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb "Learn".

    Both are acceptable, but learned is often used in both British English and American English, while learnt is much more common in British English than in American English.

    Here are some examples: 
    1 "Many people who support Trump have not learnt the difference between your and you're."
    2 "Many people who voted for Trump have learned what buyer's remorse is and wish they voted for Bernie Sanders."

    The Oxford English Dictionary can't be wrong on this
    https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/learnt-vs-learned

    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at April 25, 2017 5:56 AM MDT
      April 25, 2017 2:05 AM MDT
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  • 17261
    Is anything really quid pro quo? Don't we always get, or expect something in return for our favor?
      April 11, 2017 4:42 AM MDT
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  • No, not at all.  One can give a kindness to another with no thought of any return.
      April 11, 2017 9:06 AM MDT
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  • 17261
    Hmm. Might be question on how one defines expectations.

    You don't expect anything from people you showed kindness? They can show you any aggression if that's how they feel like? I'd say, if I show kindness to someone, which I do a lot, I do expect they are civil with me. 
      April 11, 2017 2:12 PM MDT
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  • I'm bewildered, how did you jump from kindness to aggression? And my expectations are in general based on the situation.  In a random interaction with a stranger, usually a customer at work, just an acknowledgement in enough.  In an interaction with someone I know there might be a different expectation.  For instance, last year I gave a coworker's son a birthday gift which was never even acknowledged.  So I would not in the future give a gift.  But at work, I work in food service in a hospital, a customer may be distracted and stressed with other concerns.  So if I go unacknowledged I can accept that. 
      April 11, 2017 3:22 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    I was not trying to belittling your efforts being a kind person. I have seen other sides of you here. But nevertheless I do believe what you say. I don't think we will get closer to an understanding and instead of adding more that can be misunderstood I think it's better to plain stop the discussion here.

    I made a reply for the OP using quid pro quo challenging the idea behind it as how it's used in modern society. I will leave it at that.

    All my best. 
      April 11, 2017 3:47 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Yes, you are right, even if we don't say we expect something in return we expect it inwardly, that is an astute answer SapphicHeart!
      April 12, 2017 11:50 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Thank you. :-)
      April 13, 2017 9:42 AM MDT
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  • 170
    True Story

    In the UK, a "quid" is slang for a pound sterling.
    In negotiations with the printing union, the NGA some years ago, my managing director offered the negotiating team a "quid pro quo" (so far unspecified) for some act of performance improvement.

    This was immediately conveyed back to the workforce as an offer of an extra pound a day, about a 3% wage increase, on top of the normal annual cost-of-living wage rise, which was not at all what my MD intended.

    In explaining to the union leaders what "quid pro quo" actually meant, he nearly caused a strike.


      April 11, 2017 4:51 AM MDT
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  • 2217
    Your MD obviously overestimated the classical education of (the) hoi polloi. 
      April 11, 2017 4:44 PM MDT
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