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Wheeler Dealer
A Wheeler Dealer is a cunning business person who's got an eye for a quick profit, using possible dishonest means. Possibly, the phrase originates in the gambling casinos where roulette is played on a wheel and dealers handle cards. Therefore, a "wheeler dealer" could be a professional gambler, who has no professional trade but his.

A second possibility relates to Billings-gate Fish Market in London. It was once one of the busiest markets in England underhand business often took place there. Barrows loaded with fresh fish would be wheeled up from the dockside so that the dealing could take place and so it's thought that the fishmongers there were known as "wheeler dealers".
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