drag in

transitive verb

: to bring in or inject especially into an argument irrelevantly or inappropriately

the speaker's references to his political opponent were only dragged in out of spite

a ballet that, for once, isn't dragged in, that is a perfectly legitimate part of the scene

—Deems Taylor

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