rope into

present singular third person ropes into · participle present roping into · participle past roped into · past roped into

1. 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

2. 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

   2 more examples

   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

   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