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rope into en · VERB
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rope, into.
They could be quickly strapped into the jump-seats with seatbelts, rather than roping them into the bed of the truck in a downpour.
2010, Kurt Lewis Allen, The Service, →ISBN, page 202:
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To inveigle someone into (doing something) that they are reluctant to do.
He wondered if it was a case of deliberate set up, to rope him into something bigger than him.
2016, Alpha Dominion, Shattered Dreams, →ISBN:She's roped me into making six chocolate truffle tortes for a hospice do and to help with the spring fair.
2012, Susan Hill, Simon Serrailler Bundle: The Pure in Heart/The Various Haunts of Men, →ISBN:Efforts to contain the discontent in the plants through the creation of new bargaining institutions gave the unions an apprenticeship in institution building without roping them into a defense of the status quo;
1982, Charles F. Sabel, Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry, →ISBN, page 157:
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