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wheeler-dealer

[ hwee-ler-dee-ler, wee- ]

noun

Informal.
  1. a person who wheels and deals.


wheeler-dealer

noun

  1. informal.
    a person who wheels and deals
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of wheeler-dealer1

First recorded in 1950–55
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McCartney was dubious about the man the New York Times called "the toughest wheeler-dealer in the pop jungle" and man who had said: "Don't talk to me about ethics. Every man makes his own. It's like a war."

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First up, the call between the prime minister and the president-elect, seeking, in Downing Street’s description of it, to describe a tone of warmth, even bonhomie between the socialist former human rights lawyer and the billionaire wheeler-dealer New Yorker.

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Most of us will likely agree that if you are making $18 or $22 or $25 per hour, you are not a wheeler-dealer in the corner suite, and you should have a right to overtime coverage without having to prove exactly how not-managerial you are.

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Akhtar renders Lopakhin as a cockney wheeler-dealer, by turns chummy and aggressive, whose brazen acquisitiveness is tempered by a raffish charm — he is fond of corny catchphrases like “see ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya†— and moments of humanity.

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The campaign of Massa, 51, an experienced political wheeler-dealer, had sought to appeal to voter fears about Milei's volatile character and plans to cut back the size of the state.

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