Trollope ploy
English
editEtymology
editNamed after an incident from an Anthony Trollope novel in which a woman interprets a casual romantic gesture as a marriage proposal.
Noun
editTrollope ploy (plural Trollope ploys)
- A negotiation technique in which a proposal from another party is deliberately misinterpreted in such a way that it is more to the responding party's liking, with the aim of having the misinterpreted version accepted in the interests of diplomacy.