Main entry: sweep up, adopt, embrace, espouse
Definition: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Usage: She embraced Catholicism; They adopted the Jewish faith
Main entry: embroil, drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle
Definition: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Usage: They were swept up by the events; don't drag me into this business