to persuade someone to do something that they do not really want to do
Are you trying to tell yourself you've got some rope in your pocket?
He had rope in the stores, two-inch nylon that they could run the length of the big rooms.
He stood at the corner of the deckhouse, a coiled rope in one hand, and said nothing.
I get roped in to help whenever I visit them.
The leafy branch rose and fell, and the horse jerked and jerked at the rope in John's hand.
ropes in
roping in
roped in
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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