How To Use Rope-a-dope In A Sentence
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Whenever I read those stories, I think of George Foreman's contention that the rope-a-dope was never a strategy at all, that Muhammad Ali had fired an arrow into a barn and then walked over afterward and painted a bull's-eye around it.
Washington is bad at scheming
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If you caught the Roy Jones Jr. fight last night you saw his rope-a-dope, ‘chicken wing ‘work to perfection right before sending his opponent to the canvas with a huge right hand.
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It stands to reason that you can't really serve warning of a rope-a-dope approach, however obliquely.
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Whenever I read those stories, I think of George Foreman's contention that the rope-a-dope was never a strategy at all, that Muhammad Ali had fired an arrow into a barn and then walked over afterward and painted a bull's-eye around it.
Washington is bad at scheming
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The Foreman bout saw Ali, slower but nail-hard and with the bagful of fight tricks employ the biggest gamble in sporting history, the rope-a-dope, to cement his sporting greatness.
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He hits Foreman with right hands - nobody hits George with right hands - and then he goes into the rope-a-dope and George is pummelling him.
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And if you take the dope out of rope-a-dope, what are you left with?
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Drawing upon other-worldly fortitude and raw courage, Ali simply outlasted Foreman, with his rope-a-dope tactics, before knocking him out in the eighth round.
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Perhaps they're attempting a footballing version of Muhammad Ali's famous rope-a-dope?
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Behind all the rope-a-dope swagger, though, the two parties are not that far apart.
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