---

• n  a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches

• It's like Muhammad Ali (and the rope-a-dope strategy he used against George Foreman in Zaire)that kind of cocky.
• The White House last month turned to Manhattanite Kathleen McFarland to play rope-a-dope, though Empire State Republicans believe the nomination will eventually go to former .
• BIO Levin, it seems, has been employing an old Muhammad Ali trick, the rope-a-dope: just when you thought he was out of the fight, he comes roaring back.

News & Articles

---

• St. Tammany coroner's lawsuit paints him as visionary who modernized office
  After employing a rope-a-dope strategy to the mounting criticism of his spending and management practices, St. Tammany Parish Coroner Peter Galvan jabbed back last week with a lawsuit to thwart the state Legislature's move to give parish government control of...
  June 18, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune