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wheeler-dealer
noun
a scheming, contriving deal-maker with many connections US, 1960
The reduplication serves to intensify.- The wheelers and dealers in the Tiger didn’t stop wheeling and dealing, they just took their swift moving actions to a slower, more cautious place. — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 36, 1977
- Those wheeler-dealers who didn’t blow their brains out after the Hurricane of ’26 or hang themselves after the real-estate bust were eventually rewarded with untold wealth. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 315, 1986
- The wheelers and dealers were having a good time because contacts were everything to them. Appointments were gold. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 130, 1987
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