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- rope into doing
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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Herakles | | HER-ə-kleez (English) | Greek Mythology |
| Lyudmil | | - | Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic |
| Rose | | [rəuz] | |
| Cassander | | - | Ancient Greek (Latinized) |
| Ste | | - | English |
| Davie | | DAY-vee (English) | English, Scottish |