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wheel and ˈdeal, v. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
Pa. tense wheeled and dealed.
[f. wheel n. 14 d + deal v.]
1. intr. To engage in scheming or shrewd bargaining, esp. of a political or commercial nature. Cf. wheeler-dealer.
1961Webster, Wheel and deal, to take the part of a leader or wheel and to take charge of affairs or arrangements (showed the town how an absolute dictator wheels and deals—Newsweek). 1962‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed vii. 53 You don't act like you really know where to wheel-and-deal yet. 1967National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 13 Reagan could break loose votes from the Democrats if he really wanted to. You can always wheel-and-deal and get at least part of what you want. 1967Listener 24 Aug. 250/1 Frost is wheeling and dealing off camera. 1974Publishers Weekly 24 June 58/1 Lads who..wheeled and dealed with megacorporations. 1976J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service xiv. 234 ‘What's in the wind is a little quiet wheeling and dealing about the black sheep of the family.’..‘Why should the Provost wheel and deal about you?’
2. trans. To obtain by scheming; to deal or bargain in.
1971R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel xii. 217 In other words, if we agree to shut up, you'll wheel and deal some pin money for us. 1974Scottish Daily Express 16 Apr. 4/3 Dr. Henry Kissinger, due here shortly to wheel and deal his way to stilling the guns. 1979Tucson Mag. Mar. 49/1 The Inn was originally built to wheel and deal Arizona land.
Hence wheeling and ˈdealing vbl. n. Cf. wheeler-dealing vbl. n. s.v. wheeler-dealer.
1969Listener 9 Jan. 60/3 As a proof of his mischievous intentions, he [sc. Henry II] invites the devious King of France to this gathering. It would need a Norman Mailer to describe accurately the wheeling and dealing that follows. 1976[see sense 1 above]. 1981Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 9 When silver prices rode the crest and silver-miners and promoters flocked to the Slocan..the streets of New Denver..were alive with wheeling and dealing. |
