巻まき添ぞえを食くう

expression, godan verb (-u)

get caught up in; be dragged into; suffer collateral damage

Used when someone becomes involved in trouble, a dispute, or an accident through no fault of their own, often as a bystander or secondary party. The image is of being pulled into something like a 'side-sweep'.

• 彼かれは友ゆう人じんの喧けん嘩かに巻まき添ぞえを食くって、警けい察さつに連つれて行いかれた。

  He got dragged into his friend's fight and was taken away by the police.

• 交こう通つう事じ故この巻まき添ぞえを食くって、無む関かん係けいな歩ほ行こう者しゃがけがをした。

  An innocent pedestrian was injured after getting caught up in the traffic accident.