strike a balance (?.)

• accommodate
• adjust
• amortize
• average
• average out
• avoid extremes
• balance
• balance the books
• be conservative
• be heavy
• be moderate
• be pacifistic
• book
• cancel
• capitalize
• carry
• carry over
• carry weight
• cast up accounts
• charge off
• clear
• close out
• close the books
• compensate
• compose
• compound
• compromise
• coordinate
• cop out
• counterbalance
• counterpoise
• countervail
• credit
• debit
• discharge
• docket
• duck responsibility
• enter
• equalize
• equate
• evade responsibility
• even
• even up
• fit
• give and take
• give way
• go fifty-fifty
• have weight
• heft
• hold the scales
• honor
• integrate
• journalize
• keep books
• keep the peace
• keep within bounds
• keep within compass
• level
• lie heavy
• lift
• liquidate
• live temperately
• log
• make a deal
• make accounts square
• make an adjustment
• make an entry
• make concessions
• meet halfway
• minute
• not make waves
• not resist
• note
• pair off
• pay in full
• pay off
• pay the bill
• pay the shot
• pay up
• play politics
• poise
• post
• post up
• practice nonviolence
• practice self-control
• preserve a balance
• proportion
• reach a compromise
• redeem
• relent
• remit
• retire
• satisfy
• settle
• settle down
• sober down
• split the difference
• square
• square accounts
• strike a bargain
• surrender
• take in sail
• take the average
• take the mean
• take up
• tip the scales
• via media
• weigh
• weigh heavy
• weigh in
• weigh out
• weight
• yield