rope into

To get someone to do something (usually by pressuring or tricking them) when they didn't plan to.

"Somehow I got roped into organising the whole department's leaving party."

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To help fire this trebuchet, I climbed inside it

Tom Scott · 7:37

Get the rope into place, because otherwise,

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How Money Works Uncut · 9:57

to the people they rope into their schemes.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 0:45

so they don't wind the [music] rope into planet-sized balls of yarn.

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