rope in

Then you were roped in by a factory, had a machine slung around your neck , and then you were hooked . up by the arse with a wife.

All her friends have been roped in to help organize the event.

Then you were roped in by a factory, had a machine slung around your neck.

The new website, developed by XM Asia, roped in three partners: content partner ACP, publishers of Where and IS magazines; maps by WhereTo.

Their Citroen was out of fuel and they roped in a passer-by to push it to the supermarket's own gas station.

Perhaps you got roped in to being on a committee at your kids' school, or maybe you're always the person who cooks at home.

Mr Murdoch even roped in Google, already an expert in the field, in a lucrative deal to sell ad space.

I didn't want the job of selling tickets for the dance, but I was roped in because everyone else was too busy to do it.

I don't want to get roped in any more of your activities.

I was roped in for this excursion before I knew it.

The cattle have been roped in .

The agent had roped in several customers.

Part of the ground was roped in .

2: I'm afraid she's been completely roped in by that young man!

A fall here, if you weren't roped in, would be 5, 000 feet down.

That old building was roped in.

The horses are all roped in now.

The visitors' area has been roped in.

The sheep are all roped in now.

I went with my wife to the theatre club and got roped in to paint scenery.