Dictionary entry
Wangle
Pronunciation: /ˈwaŋɡ(ə)l/
Pronunciation
/ˈwaŋɡ(ə)l/
Myanmar Meaning
အခွင့်အရေးရရန် ကြံဖန်သည်၊ ဖန်တီးသည်။ အခွင့်အရေးရရန် ကြံဖန်ခြင်း၊ ဖန်တီးခြင်း။
Definition
wangle /'wæŋgl/ v ~ sth (out of sb) ( infml ) အႀကံအဖန္ လုပ္သည္။ ဖန္သည္။ I'd love to go to the match tomorrow — do you think you can wangle it? ❍ She managed to wangle an invitation to the reception. ❍ I'll come if I can wangle some money out of my parents. ❏ wangle one's way into/ out of sth/ doing sth [ IDM ] ဉာဏ္နီဉာဏ္နက္သံုး၍ ရေအာင္ယူသည္၊ လြတ္ေအာင္ေရွာင္သည္။ I don't know how he wangled his way into such a well-paid job. ❍ He managed to wangle his way out of paying.
Examples
- ‘Anjali Sircar
- tired of room hunting
- asked her distant cousin
- Yash
- to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar.’
- ‘Will Lola and Ella be able to get to the concert
- wangle invitations to Stu's party afterward
- and face down Carla?’
- ‘Also
- companies are keen to wangle best prices from their sales reps
- a tactic which dabs.com ignores - its telesales team is not to negotiate on price.’
- ‘So if you're determined to land a tutor
- you need to wangle invites to all those College dinners at High Table.’
- ‘I wangled a trip to one of its conferences in Miami a few years ago and was bowled over by the quality of access that journalists
- members of the public enjoy
- to basic public information.’
- ‘Bannister had wangled a continuance of the trial
- but unless he could produce Pike
- Hardiman's chances looked slim.’
- ‘I came home today instead of tomorrow
- I was able to wangle myself a seat on a navy transport from Groton.’
- ‘You can wangle only so much for TV-rights packages; only sell so many replica shirts; only cram so many punters inside your ground.’
- ‘Unless Barrett can wangle an extended stay in Dundee.’
- ‘In Alabama
- you must shoot a doe before you wangle a buck permit.’
- ‘A busy couple of days ensues: I managed to wangle out of the workplace Christmas do this year
- but our own department's Christmas lunch is coming up.’
- ‘The Professor manages to wangle a job as the producer's assistant and is given responsibility for many of the production details.’
- ‘So she wangled nights out with four such desirable men and reported back on the pros and cons of the ‘perfect’ dates.’
- ‘Having wangled a job on the support staff - ‘the best grounding I could have had’ - she had daily access to the editors and decision-makers in every title.’
- ‘‘I managed to wangle that
- ’ he admits
- ‘I'm experienced
- and that got me through.’’
- ‘The Oxford history graduate scoffs at the idea that his father somehow wangled him the job of co-presenting and researching the programme and accompanying book.’
- ‘When I was trying to wangle invitations to Washington to talk about this stuff
- they would get private investors to hop on a plane and fly to New Haven to see it.’
- ‘When I was younger
- I used to wangle my way on to the table most weekends.’
- ‘I had to wangle the cheddar cheese away from our other sous-chef
- Eric
- who was holding onto it for some as-yet-unbooked private party.’
- ‘If anyone could have dreamed up an unlikely idea like the Wooden Horse and wangled his way into Troy
- he would have.’