What does string along mean?

string along

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

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"She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along."
"What irks is the DfT's response of stringing the industry along. Far better would be for the DfT to say: "No, we are not upgrading this or that part of the railway - we must make the best of what we have.""

strings along (present, singular) stringing along (participle, present) strung along (participle, past) strung along (past)

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