carrot in front of someone (to dangle a) [exp]

Meaning:

• to try to persuade someone to do something by showing something attractive.

Examples:

1. I won’t come back to that office again. Try not to dangle a carrot in front of me.
2. This promotion dangles a carrot in front of people, because they want to persuade me to help them with money.
3. She dangled the carrot in front of her son by a new video game to make him to finish his homework.
4. The company dangled a carrot in front of its employees by promising extra pay if they rich their annual sales targets.
5. The teacher dangled a carrot in front of the students by offering them some stationery as reward.

Synonym for to dangle a carrot in front of someone

To attract

To make someone like something.

• The thing that attracted me to accept this job was travelling.
• The thing that attracted me to think about his offer was money.
• The environment of the office didn’t attract me.
• The house especially the level attracted him to buy it.

To charm

To make someone like you in order to make them do something for you.

• The native people charmed us by their hospitality.
• The charmed children by promising them to give them delicious chocolate.
• The woman charmed him to steal his bracelet.
• They charm people by showing them beautiful and luxury houses.

To lure

To persuade a person to do a dangerous thing for you.

• The advertisers know how to introduce their product to lure people to buy that.
• Take care of your son not to be lured by video games. It will be harmful for his mental and also lessons.
• At first the manager lured me with high salary to join his company. After contract he broke all his promises.
• She got lured by his wealthy house and cars and married him.

To tantalize

To promise something that you do for someone but eventually do not do that.

• The smell of that pastries tantalized me to buy them. But it didn’t taste good.
• The way the salesman talked about the pants tantalized me to pick them. But the quality was not good.
• When the president was candidate, he tantalized many people that he would create many jobs if we vote for him.
• The mayor tantalized that he would make many new roads but haven’t done yet.

To tempt

To make something intriguing in order to persuade someone.

• They try to tempt young people to study engineering.
• The other company which is our opponent tempt people buy their product by slashing their prices.
• Gangsters tempt poor people to join them with high amount of money.
• In spite of its long distance to their office from my home, I was tempted to accept the job because they offered me a high salary.

To seduce some body into doing something

To make someone do something by showing something attractive to them.

• Real managers are people who seduce their staff into sharing their knowledge.
• When I was a child, I could be seduced into doing everything by a chocolate.
•  I think the girl is seducing him into spending money for her.
• By showing the delicious foods in the advertisement, the restaurant seduced us into going there.

To inveigle somebody into something

To convince a person to do what you want in a dishonest way.

• She inveigled him into signingthecontract and didn’t give him any time to read the fine print.
• The swindler inveigled the old couple into handing him their golds.
• He was inveigled into joining the club and didn’t tell him about the expenses.
• The man was inveigled into thievery by seeing the jewelries.

To induce

To persuade a person to do something in a way that is not wise.

• Nothing would induce me to gain the money in that way.
• Nothing induces her to be his girlfriend again.
• Hey! What do you think? I won’t be induced by these unworthy offers.
• This is not fair that he induces girl by deceptive promises.

To wheedle

To say nice things to someone to in order to achieve some benefits. Use to say disapproval.

• The embezzlers wanted to wheedle the manager to get more money out of the company.
• A good business man is the one who can wheedle the clients into buying.
• The countries around Persian Gulf are wheedling the European into investing money to their country.
•   If you want to revive our factory, we have to wheedle the investors to invest for us.

To cajole somebody into doing something

To gradually persuade someone to do something by promising good things. 

• We do our best to cajole rich people into helping poor people.
• In no way he was cajoled to work with us.
• When I saw the landscapes, I was cajoled into travelling with this tour.
• The pyramid companies cajoled the man into giving them his money.

To deceive

To trick people.

• They really deceive the young girl by telling her she will be a millionaire.
• The dogmatics tried to deceive public into thinking the war was victory.
• Try not to be deceived by its appearance, This the exact same thing as previous model.
• Don’t be deceived by his nice behavior. Every body knows that he is a real sly.  

Relative word

decoy

decoy is someone who trick people into going somewhere so that catch them something by attacking.

• The police defined a gold shop as a decoy to capture the robbers.
• He put some decoys in his house to trick children, catch them and abuse them.
• The hunter used a carrot as a decoy to trap the rabbit.
• He digs some holes with loose lids and pours some seeds on the as decoy to catch birds.