sweep up
    v 1: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of
         action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me
         into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep,
         sweep up, drag, drag in]
    2: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and
       use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They
       adopted the Jewish faith" [syn: espouse, embrace,
       adopt, sweep up]