wheel-a-deal

verb, variation of ‘wheel and deal’ | ‘wheel and deal’: to obtain by scheming; to deal or bargain in (“wheel and deal, v.” OED)

“I said, ‘Daddy will you buy me that calf?’, ’cause Sarah and I’d always have our own calf, and we’d raise it, you know. And so Dad bought it for me. And Dad’s trying to wheel-a-deal with him, and he says, ‘Well now, Tom, I could probably get a pretty good price for him’, you know, so. And I know Dad paid ten dollars for that calf.”