Source : WordNet®

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},
           {drag}, {drag in}]
     2: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone
        and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholocism"; "They
        adopted the Jewish faith" [syn: {espouse}, {embrace}, {adopt}]