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roll (someone) up

roll (someone) up
 v. phr.— «In the morning, I called a longtime friend, a Washington “source” I hadn’t spoken to in a while, and blew her cover wide open. In the parlance of the agency, I was “rolling her up.”» —“Inside scoop from the spy who loves me” by Barnaby Conrad III San Francisco Chronicle (California) Aug.114, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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