wheeling and dealing
English
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]wheeling and dealing (countable and uncountable, plural wheelings and dealings)
- The activity of working as an intermediary, making a profit from buying and selling things, or making contracts between parties.
- 2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 1 September 2019:
- Broadway vet Stewart is the only person enjoying themselves on-camera, rattling off soliloquies about the virtues of capitalism and explaining his wheelings and dealings while guns are pointed in his direction and bombs detonate in the background.
Verb
[edit]- present participle and gerund of wheel and deal