Phoebe Snow

With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.

American Musician

Adam Conover

It's only when you get towards the top that people start throwing you down a rope. It's like a law of nature, and it makes me think a lot about what my responsibility is to folks who are further down the hole where I was - how I can offer them help and how I can try to help change the structure of American society.

American Comedian

Bobby Bowden

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

American Coach

George Foreman

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

American Boxer

Miguel McKelvey

People can connect in different ways. If you do a rope course with someone you otherwise wouldn't meet and you share this incredible challenge, then you have perhaps formed a bond that could last forever.

American Businessman

Shawn Michaels

The part inside the ropes, the part where people decide if it's a good match or a bad match, that's the part that I take very, very, very, very, very seriously and that I respect the most.

American Wrestler

Tim McGraw

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

Willard Wigan

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

English Sculptor

Norman Cousins

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

American Author

Edward Albee

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.

American Dramatist

Rope is commonly used for practical tasks involving strength, like pulling or lifting.

Physical Uses

'Rope' can signify safety equipment in activities like climbing and rappelling.

Climbing Aid

Rope is used in sports, for example in 'jump rope' or 'tug of war'.

Sporting Equipment

'To rope off' suggests limiting access or marking a boundary.

Restriction Action

Using 'rope in' indicates including someone in an activity, often unexpectedly.

Inclusion

When using 'rope' as a verb, it often suggests a connection comparable to being tied together.

Metaphorical Tie

A 'rope' of pearls or other items means they are strung together, resembling a rope.

Visual Length

Referring to 'ropes' of precious items often implies wealth or sophistication.

Luxury Implication

'Roping someone into' something implies persuasion, often with reluctance.

Colloquial Persuasion

Can imply slight force or deceit was used to get someone to agree.

Connotation of Coercion

Using 'rope into' in modern contexts often portrays the speaker as current and informal.

Modern Slang

 might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning. But this cannot be what defines us. Because we have parents who raised us to understand that our bodies weren't meant for the backside of a bullet, but for flying kites and jumping rope, and laughing until our stomachs burst. We had teachers who taught us how to raise our hands in class, and not just to signal surrender, and that the only thing we should give up

How to raise a Black son...

 I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite. I carefully balanced my way upward, shifting my weight back and forth between the small smears. But then I reached a foothold that I didn't quite trust. Two days ago, I'd have just stepped right up on it, but that would have been with a rope on. Now it felt too small and too slippery.

How I climbed a...

 so we could tie off ropes and repel down into the hole. This is me looking into the entrance crevasse. At the end of this hole, we found a huge tunnel going right up the mountain underneath thousands of tons of glacier ice. We followed this cave back for about a half mile until it came to an end. And then with the help of our survey tools,

My glacier cave...

 and immediately comes back and starts photosynthesizing, bringing them back to life an incredible drought resistant plant. That's amazing how quickly they they do that. Amazing. That's really coming back in a matter of seconds, and it's perfectly adapted to these kind of stark habitats. Do you know what this is? It looks like a rope.

Spotting the World's...

 And if you pull on this side of the rope, the rope disappears on the other side. So two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time, and pull. Otherwise nothing is going to happen and the rope disappears. The first tape you're going to see is two elephants who are released together arrive at the apparatus.

Moral behavior in...

 pulled himself up and scurried upwards. He was free climbing without ropes or a harness, one misstep meant death. But up he went, and when he reached the peak, he swayed and leapt across the gap of space onto a branch of the target tree and into a world never seen before. His buddy Marwood followed him up,

What's hidden among the...

 that was left on the summit. The family had paid this company to try to go back and retrieve it. One of their main jobs, besides carrying these heavy loads above base camp is also essentially the herding of the human cattle. You know, we've got these big lines of people going up these ropes and

Unsung Heroes of Everest...

 about to spring a surprise on second which makes me deeply happy we thought that we should pay tribute to the man with twenty five million views are all star of all stars if you will and so to do that we roped in someone who knows a

Expanding our definition...

 We roped in tons of women from different gaming communities to talk about issues of sexism within gaming. But the entire panel's point was to raise awareness in a way that did not shame male gamers. As a woman, I was sexist,

How I responded to...

 really easily, especially if we start bouncing on this thing as we're descending. So I reckon if we put over the top of that. That is a very improvised rope protector. I think it's good. It's going to run through that.

Rope

A long, thick string made from twisted threads.

Often appears as...

To bind, fasten, or tie something with a rope.

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A notable quantity or amount of something.

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To trick or force someone into a particular situation.

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Physical Uses

Climbing Aid

Sporting Equipment

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