What is the AMERICAN meaning of, “…a man who had no truck with looking back..”? I understand the meaning of a man in a truck looking back, but “who had no truck with looking back” eludes me. Alternative meanings for “truck” in Merriam-Webster include “barter” and “swap.”
The sentence, with regard to the Met Gala, appeared in the New York Times on 05/02/2023:
But Mr. Lagerfeld, who attended the party seven times and was a co-host once, in 2005 when the subject was Chanel, was also a man who had no truck with looking back, and who once announced, “I don’t want to see all those old dresses” when asked about an earlier retrospective of his work. And this was a gala full of old dresses. (A positive change, for once, from all the one-offs of the past.)
Edited for clarity, as requested; as it pertains to American English only. I neither write nor read French. I thought the Cambridge Dictionary was for British words. I was using MW Dictionary, for American words. I apologize.
