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cajole someone into something/doing something collocation to persuade someone to do something they might not want to do, by pleasant talk and promises, sometimes ones which are false: He really knows how to cajole people into doing what he wants.他精于哄骗人们为他做事。 We realized too late that we had been cajoled into an arrangement that could only have a bad outcome for us. See
cajole He finally succeeded in cajoling his daughter into eating her dinner. They cleverly cajoled the suspect into a revelation. She cajoled me into coming round with promises of cake. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Urging & persuading ambulance-chasing argumentation badger be/go on at someoneidiom blag blagger go on hortatory hustle incitation incitement influencer jockey sucker sway unconvinced unpersuaded unpersuasive unsalable unsaleable |