Answer
Deal with
Deal with verb - To behave toward in a stated way.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Bruno Glening wants a deal with Mephistopheles, but Mephisto finds Bruno so repulsive that he rejects every attempt, and it has gotten to the point where he even refuses to answer the man's summons.
Source: Deal With The Devil / Comics -
Rather than just give her the simple and incomplete answer, Bob prefaces a longer explanation with some variation on "yes and no" to let her know his response has to deal with the nuances of the situation at hand.
Source: Double-Edged Answer - While her protagonists often must deal with the fact that there are things beyond their control, the reccuring answer is that they decide how to deal with it — she's a big fan of Earn Your Happy Ending.
Source: Analysis / Yasuko Kobayashi
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