wheeler-dealer

[hwee-ler-dee-ler, wee-] /ˈʰwi lərˈdi lər, ˈwi-/

noun, Informal.

a person who wheels and deals.

Also, wheeler and dealer.

Origin

1950-55

Examples from the web for wheeler-dealer

But it will mean something of a change of course for a firm that made its reputation as a smart wheeler-dealer.
As an adult, he liked his father's talent for schmoozing, his skill as a finagler and a wheeler-dealer.
Land grabber, neighborhood despoiler, wheeler-dealer--those are the kinds of labels that stick to an urban real estate developer.
His wheeler-dealer image, self-made wealth, and free-market convictions made him a symbol of the emerging business age.
He'd been so high, a real wheeler-dealer, and now he was working for wages.

British Dictionary definitions for wheeler-dealer

noun

(informal) a person who wheels and deals

Slang definitions & phrases for wheeler-dealer

noun

A person who wheels and deals; big-time operator, Ganze Macher (1950s+)