to rope in

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(deyim) Persuade to take part in
divide by means of a rope; "The police roped off the area where the crime occurred
draw in as if with a rope; lure; "The agent had roped in several customers"
If you say that you were roped in to do a particular task, you mean that someone persuaded you to help them do that task. Visitors were roped in for potato picking and harvesting I got roped in to help with the timekeeping
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