Shanghaiing

Definition

shanghai /ʃæŋ'haÇ/ v ( pt, pp -haied /-'haÇd/; pres p -haiing /-'haÇÇŋ/) ~ sb (into doing sth) ( infml ) တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္၍ျဖစ္ေစ၊ အတင္းအဓမၼျဖစ္ေစ… ေစသည္။ tourists shanghaied into buying expensive fakes.

Examples

1. ‘Anyone publishing it should be shanghaied aboard a hell-ship and flogged through the horse latitudes.’
2. ‘Otherwise
3. as Hume remarks in his essay ‘Of the Original Contract’
4. it is like telling a man who has been shanghaied aboard a ship that he is free to leap into the sea and perish.’
5. ‘It was probably the first time any of them had received a kind word from the panda since they had been shanghaied to the crew.’
6. ‘The merchant ship's hold had been emptied
7. and according to the crew some of their shipmates had been shanghaied by the pirates.’
8. ‘Budd innocently exalts
9. even as he is shanghaied and set upon a path that leads to the yardarm.’
10. ‘It wasn't $20 million
11. but it was still more money than I imagine this woman had seen in her life - a pretty good payout and hardly deterrence to other parents in the neighborhood who felt entitled to shanghai the system.’
12. ‘What they don't realize is that the plane is still en route to LA and Walt has merely shanghaied their minds for this astral plane adventure.’
13. ‘To recap: last week Jack shanghaied a suspect and used a taser to force him to reveal the location of the primary bad guy.’
14. ‘But first of all
15. it's not like they're going to take a helicopter down there and shanghai these people to the CBS studios.’
16. ‘Voluntary - even mandatory - service to school and community is one thing
17. but to be shanghaied into unpaid labor in order to improve your schoolmasters' quarterly figures?’
18. ‘I felt like an idiot
19. standing there with nothing to say after I'd shanghaied him.’
20. ‘At the end of the afternoon the cameras came out
21. and a waiter was shanghaied to take the group photo.’
22. ‘Doubtless the car's previous owner would be irked to discover that his car was gone
23. but he'd likely be amazed if he knew it was being shanghaied to Mercury.’
24. ‘The emotional nature of feelings about morality makes it especially vulnerable to being shanghaied by baser instincts.’
25. ‘Joe
26. and Ned it turns out
27. are minutes from being shanghaied into white slavery when Nancy finally gets around to saving them.’
28. ‘The night before he began his college basketball career
29. Anthony was shanghaied along with the rest of his Syracuse teammates and was taken to a party at the New York museum on board the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier.’
30. ‘Cain had made that very clear when he had shanghaied them for this little errand.’
31. ‘Marcella shanghaied him and said something about his brother being in the study and wanting to see him.’
32. ‘Adventure shanghaied me to near disaster on the high seas.’
33. ‘Which begs the question: How did the film-makers shanghai this many recognizable actors into such a debacle?’