Where a service is provided on its face pro bono (without payment), but the length of time spent and the complexity of the service means it is likely there is a quid pro quo settlement of the debt occurring somewhere quietly in the background.
The lawyers were acting for the defendant pro bono, but people suspected that it was actually a quid pro bono arrangement as there was no way the lawyer would work for that guilty defendant for free for so long.
by Mezmerina December 18, 2023
Get the Quid pro bonomug. A deceptive workplace maneuver in which an employee is offered a favor or opportunity (typically a job or promotion) by their boss under an implied quid pro quo—but instead of reciprocating the “quid” directly, the employee skips the middleman and delivers the “quo” to the boss’s boss.
When Dave hinted that Rachel could get the senior manager role if she helped him “off the record,” she pulled a classic Quid Pro No—she took the quo straight to the VP and walked out with the promotion and left Dave with blue balls and self doubt.
by Peterhardon July 28, 2025
Get the Quid Pro Nomug. 
The opposite of ‘guid pro quo’: in which there is no (equal or any)return of similar value or action from person to person.
After the massive amount of financial help I gave him; with a ‘guid pro quo’ expectation... I haven’t gotten anything from this dude. He didn’t seem like a ‘Quid-Pro-No’!!!!
by Major Thomas Randle September 20, 2018
Get the Quid-Pro-Nomug. What folks are saying about Clarence and Ginni Thomas’ shamelessly profiteering Supreme Court decision-for-sale antics.
Oh Clarence, how can the public even think for a minute that we are taking bribes for access, that what we’ve done is a quid pro no-no?
by Dr Bunnygirl May 4, 2023
Get the quid pro no-nomug. Jeremy: “Audrey was mad at me for going to the movies without her.”
Drew: “Didn’t she remember you asked her last week?”
Jeremy: “I tried to tell her but she was being a quid.”
Drew: “Didn’t she remember you asked her last week?”
Jeremy: “I tried to tell her but she was being a quid.”
by Cūrtłē May 31, 2018
Get the Quidmug.