wangle out

And from time to time even big City shareholders have baulked at some of the more generous pay deals that executives have been able to wangle out of their companies, arguing that shareholders have been taken for a ride.

And I don't want to wangle out of it like that.'

Then there are the people who feel fear like the rest of us and don't make any effort to resist it, don't join up or come out, and when they have to, go back after three months with a blighty one, and get a job, and stay there——' 'And when they are here wangle out of all the dirty jobs,' put in Foster.

About all he managed to wangle out of Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato and Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda was an agreement to begin negotiations some time this year on the peace treaty that has been languishing on the agenda ever since the two countries formally ended their state of war in 1956.

He never did a stroke of work that he could possibly "wangle" out of.