wheeler-dealer

His self-stylings as a wheeler-dealer have receded ever since his first impeachment in 2019.

McCartney was dubious about the man the New York Times called "the toughest wheeler-dealer in the pop jungle" and man who had said: "Don't talk to me about ethics. Every man makes his own. It's like a war."

First up, the call between the prime minister and the president-elect, seeking, in Downing Street’s description of it, to describe a tone of warmth, even bonhomie between the socialist former human rights lawyer and the billionaire wheeler-dealer New Yorker.

Most of us will likely agree that if you are making $18 or $22 or $25 per hour, you are not a wheeler-dealer in the corner suite, and you should have a right to overtime coverage without having to prove exactly how not-managerial you are.

Akhtar renders Lopakhin as a cockney wheeler-dealer, by turns chummy and aggressive, whose brazen acquisitiveness is tempered by a raffish charm — he is fond of corny catchphrases like “see ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya” — and moments of humanity.