rope in
拉拢
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Definitions
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- : British to persuade to take part in some activity
- : US and Canadian to trick or entice into some activity
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Examples
This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.
It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!
Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
Once the rope got tangled around Squinty's foot, and he jumped over it to get free.
The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.