string along

string along

verb

Definition of STRING ALONG

transitive verb

1

: to keep waiting <strung him along until the boss was back from lunch>

2

: deceive, fool <string alonging us along with ruses and red herrings — John Powers>

intransitive verb

: go along, agree <held her tongue and strung along with the rest of them>

Examples of STRING ALONG

1. <the student succeeded in stringing even his teachers along with his tales of family hardships>

First Known Use of STRING ALONG

1914

Related to STRING ALONG

Synonyms

bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, deceive, sucker, suck in, take in, trick

Antonyms

undeceive

Related Words

kid, put on, tease; bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle

Near Antonyms

debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask; disclose, divulge, tell, unveil; disabuse, disenchant, disillusion

Rhymes with STRING ALONG

all along, before long, billabong, Chittagong, come-along, come along, cradlesong, drinking song, evensong, get along, go along, run along, scuppernong, sing-along, siren song, summerlong, tagalong, Vietcong