Jew down

" […] who should come along this mornin' but one of those same holy people, and Jewed me down on pay that the Lord knows is hard enough to live on."

Incidentally they ask a price much higher than it is worth; they expect to be Jewed down.

" […] I don't want to get Jewed down, you know. I'm sure you'll take care of me?"

[…] the popular and fashionable lying, which is so prolific between merchant and customer, as the process of jewing down is going on among all traders of the day.

Equality, too, removes the possibility of bargaining, of jewing up or jewing down a salary, according to the exigencies of the moment.

I wanted to get $600 and a light job and they just jewed me down to $375 and a light job.

Millan had already been repeating his loud opinion of all Hindus, before the tailor he had so efficiently jewed down was half out of the room.