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rope in

Verb

Meaning

divide by means of a rope

draw in as if with a rope; lure

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When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like "Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?!" "Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?" Kevin James

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. Taylor Dane

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. Harry S. Truman

Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged. Portuguese Proverb

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung. Irish Proverb

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged. Italian Proverb

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