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a deal breaker
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a fact or condition that makes you refuse to accept an agreement
Also written 'deal-breaker'. Used in business and in relationships: 'smoking is a deal breaker for me'. The opposite idea is 'a selling point'.
In context
For me, a salary below fifteen million dong a month is a deal breaker.
Her refusal to work weekends was not a deal breaker for the company.
More idioms about business
- a ballpark figurea rough number that is close to the real amount
- a big playera powerful and important person or company in a field
- a bottlenecka point where progress slows because too much has to pass through it
- a dog-eat-dog worlda situation where people compete hard and will harm others to succeed
- a done dealsomething that has been agreed and cannot now be changed