"string along" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strings along",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stringing along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strung along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strung along",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "string<,,strung> along"
      },
      "expansion": "string along (third-person singular simple present strings along, present participle stringing along, simple past and past participle strung along)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (along)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 51",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions."
      ],
      "id": "en-string_along-en-verb-UMr7YV~Q",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hinhalten"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions",
          "word": "falsche Hoffnungen machen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-string along.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-au-string_along.ogg/En-au-string_along.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-au-string_along.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "string along"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strings along",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stringing along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strung along",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strung along",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "string<,,strung> along"
      },
      "expansion": "string along (third-person singular simple present strings along, present participle stringing along, simple past and past participle strung along)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (along)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 51",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-string along.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-au-string_along.ogg/En-au-string_along.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-au-string_along.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hinhalten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to keep somebody falsely believing that one has certain intentions",
      "word": "falsche Hoffnungen machen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "string along"
}