sweep up vs drag in

sweep up and drag in both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sweep up	No	No	Yes	No
drag in	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, sweep up and drag in are synonyms defined as:

sweep up and drag in: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

Other synonyms of sweep up include drag, embroil, sweep, tangle.

sweep up (verb)	drag in (verb)
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own	force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action