wheel and deal
Example Sentences
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This was the new “New York”; not just as far as the series was concerned, but in terms of the figures who wheel and deal within the city itself.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2025
“Boys State”: A high-energy fly-on-the-wall look at what happens when 1,000 Texas high school students gather over a week to wheel and deal and attempt to construct a representative government.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2020
Their ruthless hucksters wheel and deal like David Mamet’s salesmen in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” but wear more expensive suits.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2017
Fadzai’s brother, Gilbert, is a charismatic intellectual from the countryside hoping to wheel and deal his way through the big city, placing more stock in philosophy than in the hard-bitten lessons of his country’s history.
From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2016
‘So let’s wheel and deal, Music Man,’ Leo said.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
