rope-a-dope

But sometimes you back up and do what he used to call a rope-a-dope.

Many Democrats felt it was an elaborate game of political rope-a-dope.

Even so, the rope-a-dope is serving the President's immediate interests.

When he won the title the second time, from Foreman, the rope-a-dope just happened.

We all know about Djokovic’s knack of playing rope-a-dope with his opponents.

For this is the most sensational act of political rope-a-dope ever witnessed.

But that promise was consumed under the tactical demands of rope-a-dope.

Baseball rope-a-dope: the Braves were trying to get their fighter through this one round.

He shook his head again, offering something perilously close to a hack’s rope-a-dope.

It was like a rope-a-dope without the President ever staging a counter-attack.

But he did the rope-a-dope and Foreman punched himself out."

Suddenly he had been the dope in what Ali would later describe as the "rope-a-dope."

Moreover, the old rope-a-dope is working in his favor.

Though Bush's performance was otherwise clumsy and lackluster, he won by playing rope-a-dope.

I like to think of it as the old Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope.

"Instead, they are more inclined to play rope-a-dope again.

Better for the Welsh to play rope-a-dope and allow the French to punch themselves out.

This was rope-a-dope being played on a loop.

Foreman kept throwing punches and coming forward, but the 'rope-a-dope' seemed to be working as he slowly tired.

Republicans, meanwhile, are playing a game of rope-a-dope.

The "rope-a-dope" may have been born out of desperation, but there was no question what it was doing to Foreman.

Then, like Muhammad Ali coming out of the rope-a-dope, she would say something astoundingly true.

This rope-a-dope is sure to frustrate progressives who are still spoiling for a fight.

Is Ryan Miller trying a brilliant rope-a-dope strategy here?

There could be tennis versions of Ali playing rope-a-dope with his dancing feet, taking a punch and laughing.