wheel and deal
verb [I] informalDefinition
› to try to make a profit or get an advantage using clever or complicated methods and often deceiving people or breaking the usual rules: He spends his time wheeling and dealing on the stock exchange.Cheating and trickingPlotting and trapping wheeling and dealing noun [U] › It's an article about all the wheeling and dealing that goes on in financial markets.Cheating and trickingPlotting and trapping
(Definition of wheel and deal verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a numbers game idiom
- bamboozle verb
- blackmail verb
- bullshit verb
- casuistry noun
- deceive verb
- fiddle noun (DISHONEST BEHAVIOUR)
- fiddle verb (CHEAT)
- flannel verb
- hoax verb
- hocus-pocus noun
- hoodwink verb
- impersonate verb
- jape noun
- put one over on sb idiom
- put sb on phrasal verb
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- racket noun (CRIME)
- rip sb off phrasal verb
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