OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 56350

string along

Meanings (ES + gloss)
esperanzar engañosamente • seguir el juego
To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions.
She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along.
What irks is the DfT's response of stringing the industry along. Far better would be for the DfT to say: "No, we are not upgrading this or that part of the railway - we must make t…
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