Dictionary entry
Wheeler-dealer
Pronunciation: /wiːləˈdiːlə/
Pronunciation
/wiːləˈdiːlə/
Myanmar Meaning
ပွဲစားလူလည်။
Definition
wheeler-dealer /wi:lǝ 'di:lǝ(r)/ n ( infml ) ပြဲစားလူလည္။
Examples
- ‘The syndicalists despised equally the opportunistic orgmen of the parties and the breezy
- compromising wheelers and dealers of business.’
- ‘Exclusive Some start-ups are comprised of wide-eyed wheelers and dealers with little technical expertise.’
- ‘Once a pure and sincere member of the literati
- he is now a superb wheeler-dealer in Shanghai's real estate market.’
- ‘The Burnley boss has been an astute wheeler and dealer in the loan market this season
- but again finds his resources stretched to the limit for the forthcoming double-header.’
- ‘By picture's end
- Shaw has to navigate a thicket of Chinese organized crime figures
- politicos and wheeler-dealers - plus his own traitorous colleagues - to save the day and
- not incidentally
- his own neck.’
- ‘Would you believe these shrewd
- profit-minded wheeler-dealers are pocketing a whopping 100 per cent of the profits on the sales of those puppies?!’
- ‘For we have had enough of political wheeler-dealers.’
- ‘Then she hosted cocktail parties for high-flying business men and low crawling wheelers and dealers
- one of whom managed to deal the pair right out of their boat.’
- ‘I can imagine the flood of phone calls to the local association and hear the muttered curses and imprecations of massed wheelers and dealers.’
- ‘You are a classic buy-to-let merchant
- otherwise known as a wheeler-dealer.’
- ‘So his stunt was to prove to his family just what a sharp wheeler-dealer he normally was during office hours.’
- ‘He's an example of India's emerging urban middleclass - the wheeler and dealer with a mobile phone.’
- ‘He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer
- the wheeler-dealer
- and the populist demagogue.’
- ‘He could be brash
- streetwise
- a wheeler-dealer and charming.’
- ‘The Algerian wheeler-dealer was on the run from the law last week
- his business empire in ruins.’
- ‘He is a general wheeler-dealer
- and has dabbled in building materials
- engineering and property.’
- ‘Three officers spent months working as wheeler-dealers on a market
- paying the thieves for mobile phones they had stolen from members of the public.’
- ‘The game provides such wheelers and dealers with a profile that would not be forthcoming were they to hook up with similarly sized businesses outside of it.’
- ‘This gives you the feeling of actually being there
- out there amongst the dusty border towns
- amidst the rocks and the hard places
- with the wheeler-dealers in shanty tea-stalls.’
- ‘That said
- as a kid I was already a wheeler-dealer.’