English

Verb

rope into ‎(third-person singular simple present ropes into, present participle roping into, simple past and past participle roped into)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see rope,‎ into.
   • 2010, Kurt Lewis Allen, The Service, ISBN 1452095876, page 202:

     They could be quickly strapped into the jump-seats with seatbelts, rather than roping them into the bed of the truck in a downpour.

2. To inveigle someone into (doing something) that they are reluctant to do.
   • 1982, Charles F. Sabel, Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry, ISBN 0521230020, page 157:

     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;

   • 2012, Susan Hill, Simon Serrailler Bundle: The Pure in Heart/The Various Haunts of Men, ISBN 1448138965:

     She's roped me into making six chocolate truffle tortes for a hospice do and to help with the spring fair.

   • 2016, Alpha Dominion, Shattered Dreams, ISBN 1514465566:

     He wondered if it was a case of deliberate set up, to rope him into something bigger than him.

See also

• rope in