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- noun Plural form of
rope-a-dope .
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Examples
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But with an average loss of $484 per incident, such schemes are small change compared with investment fraud ($3,548 per incident), check scams ($3,000), and Nigerian e-mail rope-a-dopes ($1,923 — no joke).
Primary Sources 2008
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But with an average loss of $484 per incident, such schemes are small change compared with investment fraud ($3,548 per incident), check scams ($3,000), and Nigerian e-mail rope-a-dopes ($1,923 — no joke).
Primary Sources 2008
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'' He rope-a-dopes you to death, '' Scherzer said.
USATODAY.com 2007
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Schieffer rope-a-dopes Lieberman into saying "the truth is nothing [by which he means no health care reform at all] is better than the public option."
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