rope in

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rope in someone/something

to persuade a person or group to do something. They're running ads that they hope will rope in the undecided voters. Once they're interested in the product, we try to rope them in and sell it to them.

Usage notes: also used in the form rope someone into doing something: He roped me into helping him clean up the yard.

See also: rope

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For several months the tribe hovered near the beach where stood Tarzan's cabin, and his studies took up the greater portion of his time, but always when journeying through the forest he kept his rope in readiness, and many were the smaller animals that fell into the snare of the quick thrown noose. Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context When he gets home, he has the rope in his hand, and there is no longer anything hanging on to it. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context Now he held a single coil of the long rope in his right hand, and the balance in his left. The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context More results

References in classic literature

For several months the tribe hovered near the beach where stood Tarzan's cabin, and his studies took up the greater portion of his time, but always when journeying through the forest he kept his rope in readiness, and many were the smaller animals that fell into the snare of the quick thrown noose.

Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

When he gets home, he has the rope in his hand, and there is no longer anything hanging on to it.

Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context

Now he held a single coil of the long rope in his right hand, and the balance in his left.

The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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