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Old June 07, 2012, 08:08 PM
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The brilliant and hilarious Fats Waller used "get some cash for your trash"in this song full of double meaning from 1941.
Here it is sung. It's worthwhile hearing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yun5Kv4kM1k

In more contemporary American English the terms are very ambiguous.
I think: would you take trade? (or they take trade) or: can we make an arrangement?(or they have a special arrangement) may be a way of expressing this. Right now I cannot think of another term. Perhaps other anglos in the forum can come up with more direct terms.
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