wheeled and dealed

wheeled and dealed

1. simple past and past participle of wheel and deal
   • 1965 September 2, “Outspoken Senate Chief; Mike Mansfield”, in The New York Times‎^[1], page 2:

     Lyndon Johnson dominated the Senate. He cajoled and flattered. browbeat and insinuated, wheeled and dealed.

   • 1999 January 14, Derek Brown, “A stark spectacle”, in The Guardian‎^[2], London:

     For 12 months the Washington establishment, represented at its most august by these 100 men and women, has yapped and barked at the President's heels. It has wheeled and dealed in private, postured and primped in public.

• As an inflection of the base verb deal, dealt is standard and dealed is nonstandard. However, the informal and rhyming nature of wheel and deal makes wheeled and dealed more common as its inflection than wheeled and dealt.