rope into doing



rope someone into doing something

Fig. to persuade or trick someone into doing something. I don't know who roped me into doing this, but I don't want to do it. See if you can rope somebody into taking this to the post office.
See also: rope

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Nneka-Western African, Igbo
Devdas-Indian, Hindi
StaasSTAH:SDutch
Pejo-Croatian, Serbian
Teige-Irish
Zlata-Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Russian