The phrase "a dope for" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express that someone is a fool or easily deceived, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "He was such a dope for believing that outrageous story."
Alternatives: "a fool for" or "an idiot for".
As drab as it can be sometimes, I can still sit there like a dope for 45 minutes listening and reading whatever parts of the newspaper I didn't get to earlier.
In Guzmán, where everyone was so welcoming, I didn't feel like a dope for taking the unironic view, or stopping to say hello to the old women who swept out their houses each morning, and then pantomiming the rest.
Dawn wanted to bring us closer together as a couple by having us share in what we ate, and I felt like a dope for not realizing this sooner.
He says he's the king of the internet and that I'm a dope for calling all these new internet-only shows "the Special Olympics version of real TV".... Eric also says I'm a chump and a whore for trying to play nice with the Hollywood guys instead of doing battle with them the way Google is doing... Well, I don't know.
Commentator Michelle Malkin proclaimed on Twitter that "CPAC is dead," and John Podhoretz of Commentary Magazine called Cardenas a "dope" for the decision.
"The White House was basically playing rope-a-dope for a while, I think.
Mayweather is a genius at the art of economical self-preservation, no rope-a-dope for him, conserving his energy to always finishing fresh.
Either way, his approach is the political equivalent of trying a rope-a-dope for 14 rounds and hoping to land a knockout in the 15th.
We think Canada's appellate court will see Chevron's rope-a-dope for what it is: a sneaky attempt to play the corporate shell game to escape justice.
It was the second straight rope-a-dope victory for the Rangers, who lead the N.H.L. in shot-blocking and hits.
On budget matters, he seems to be playing rope-a-dope — waiting for the Republicans to propose something courageous and foolhardy like entitlement reform, thus giving him an opening to step in as the bulwark against extremism.
