string sb along
— phrasal verb with string uk/strɪŋ/us/strɪŋ/verb [ T ] strung, strung
to deceive someone for a long time about what you are really intending to do:
She's been promising to pay back the money for six months, but I think she's just stringing me along.
He strung her along for years, saying he'd marry her and divorce his wife.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
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