sweep up

Verb

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
  • She embraced Catholicism
    
  • They adopted the Jewish faith
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  espouse , embrace , adopt , embroil , tangle , sweep , drag , drag in