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View synonyms for rope in

rope in

verb

  1. to persuade to take part in some activity
  2. to trick or entice into some activity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Also, rope into . Lure or entice someone into doing something, as in We didn't want to spend the night there, but we got roped in by my lonely aunt , or The salesman tried to rope us into buying some worthless real estate . These expressions allude to catching an animal by throwing a rope around it. [Mid-1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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