Английский словарь американских идиом - rope in
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Rope in
rope in
{v.}, {informal} 1. To use a trick to make (someone) do something; deceive; fool. * /The company ropes in high school students to sell magazine subscriptions by telling them big stories of how much money they can earn./ Syn.: TAKE UP(5a). 2. To get (someone to join or help); persuade to do something. * /Martha roped in Charles to help her decorate the gym for the party./ * /I didn't want the job of selling tickets for the dance, but I was roped in because everyone else was too busy to do it./
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If you say that you were roped in to do a particular task, you mean that someone persuaded you to help them do that task. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL) Visitors were roped in for potato picking and harvesting... I got roped in to help with the timekeeping. PHRASAL VERB: usu passive, be V-ed P for n, be V-ed P to-inf, also be V-ed P ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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