get someone in a line

Verb

 * 1)  To hoax or entrap somebody, so as to get some sport out of them.
 * 2) * The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects (volume 33, page 281)
 * I am afraid they have got me in a line.* In addition to the rest of my troubles, I find this shifting ships and fitting out messes attended with an enormous expense. * A common phrase among the seamen at Bitche, meaning to allure or entice.