Definition of bait in English:

bait

noun beɪtbeɪt

1mass noun Food placed on a hook or in a net, trap, or fishing area to entice fish or other animals as prey.
（诱捕鱼或其他动物的）饵
herrings make excellent bait for pike
count noun fishing with live baits
Example sentencesExamples
- The fishing in turbulent, sandy water usually is best on natural bait fished with a big rig and heavy weight near bottom.
- They took a sailfish on live fish bait suspended approximately 20 feet below the surface at 11: 10 in the morning.
- One fish took my entire bait off the hook with no problem.
- The advantage of using chum is that the slowly settling bits of bait can draw deep fish to the surface; this allows the astute angler to be selective.
- If MCM inspectors catch anyone fishing or collecting bait or shellfish in these areas they will issue fines.
- The exception might be near the mouth of a free-running pass, where outgoing flow might carry bait and fish from the bay into the surf.
- Since when has the colour of the weights we use stopped the fish eating our bait?.
- This week we will look at introducing bait to get the fish feeding in the right areas.
- Quickly and happily, I went back to the truck to grab my fishing rod and some bait.
- The hotel caters for many avid fishers, and can store bait and fishing rods for Dave and Deirdre.
- The secret is to look hard for the fish and to present baits in any areas that warrant a cast.
- Of my four children, he was the one with endless patience, the one who read up on fishing techniques, different bait, hooks, lures, whatever.
- The saltwater fisherman drifting a natural bait on a circle hook can free-spool several counts of line, then throw the reel in gear and point the rod at the fish.
- This movement carries a smorgasbord of bait to schools of fish ganged in or near the cuts.
- The possum industry would trap or use cyanide-laden bait so that the animals could be recovered and used.
- This would be suitable for all bait fishing with dead or live baits of a reasonable size.
- The bigger question is whether the Hispanic population is going to put up with the inevitable race baiting that underlies these periodic bash-fests.
- We are more concerned here with the marine species aspect of the study which began after the Government announced that it was considering a ban on using live worms as fish bait!
- Most are small, less than three or four feet, but occasionally a pier or jetty angler soaking a big bait hooks a fish with real shoulders.
- This fish is commonly used for bait in the fishing industry.
Synonyms
lure, decoy, fly, troll, jig, plug, teaser
1. 1.1 Something intended to entice someone to do something.
  诱惑；诱饵
  many potential buyers are reluctant to take the bait
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you are so against feuds being artificially built up by the media then don't take the bait and shoot your mouth off in response.
  The congressional subpoenas were fishing lines with no bait and no hook.
  With Fox out of the picture (at least until the story breaks elsewhere), who's going to take the bait?
  And after a few days of dangling it in front of you like bait, which you were all smart enough not to jump at, he never did call her.
  If you're inclined to take the bait, proceed with caution.
  I gritted my teeth and decided not to take the bait.
  King didn't take the bait, but he was assassinated two years later in Memphis.
  If only 100 recipients take the bait, it is worthwhile since emails cost next to nothing to output.
  She wanted to see if Katherine would take the bait.
  Not that he would ever actually be elected PM, but you know what I mean - there's not even the potential for it if he won't take the bait, right?
  Asked how good a player Carter might become, he refuses to take the bait, and issues a warning instead.
  If only they knew that the only way to prevent this happening is if they didn't take the bait.
  When stars light up on the big screen, do kids take the bait?
  She was tossing me bait, like she had for years, but this time I didn't want it.
  I believe this is a red herring that has worked well in past arguments and you keep hoping for someone to take the bait once again.
  The only major-league acts yet to take the bait are the Smiths, the Jam and the Police - but it's only a matter of time.
  So far most Shiites have declined to take the bait.
  So he had no bait on a fishing trip, so to speak; and Mr. Ha was just waiting to be reeled in at midnight.
  He was smart enough by now not to take the bait and sighed as he pulled into a parking spot.
  Will the PM's morning radio female Piranha take the bait?
  Synonyms
  enticement, lure, decoy, snare, trap, siren, carrot, attraction, draw, magnet, incentive, temptation, allurement, incitement, inducement
  informal come-on
2
variant spelling of bate

verb beɪtbeɪt

[with object]

1Deliberately annoy or taunt (someone)
骚扰；逗弄
the other boys revelled in baiting him about his love of literature
其他男孩都爱拿他对文学的热爱来嘲弄他。
Example sentencesExamples
- He came into office promising Black Power in the city, then made a career out of gratuitous race baiting and thumbing his nose at the white suburbs.
- When was the last time you had blatant race baiting?
- The younger girl wondered if Sanura was baiting her, teasing her like she always did, or if she knew what she was really saying to Kira.
- This movie doesn't begin to understand what movies are all about, and uses race and race baiting as a means of telling an overly tepid tale about street justice.
- But it wasn't only journalists of the left who indulged in Israel baiting.
- Dante couldn't help baiting and rubbing her face in her partner's betrayal.
- He indulged in some East Coast baiting and proclaimed Los Angeles to be the center of the world.
- Even to those who consistently disagree with and bait me, I appreciate your comments and thoughts because you keep me thinking.
- My government actually has to bait people with catchy song in order to do the thing that should be a civic duty.
- But the kids of the local came around and started baiting that daft little girl.
- I wondered if he was just trying to bait me, jokingly tease me.
- Born and reared in the east Alabama town of Oxford, the Navy veteran and ex-radio deejay had fashioned a career out of controversy and race baiting.
- All of this happened while he endured endless taunting and baiting by racist opponents and hostile crowds and frigid responses from some of his own teammates.
- But, I probably wouldn't expect to avoid it if I baited and insulted a bunch of great big thugs who hold a different political point of view.
- My surprise was magnified when, instead of baiting me, Cale took one deliberate step forward and lazily asked, ‘So, are you going to eat lunch?’
- In soccer it has nearly become acceptable to bait opposing fans, to chant and jeer at the other team's followers.
- We argued, pushed, pulled, baited, yelled, and eventually the lady kicked us out telling us to just go home.
- These kids are baiting me because they want to hear it from my own mouth.
- I don't want him to see me give in to the weight of those urges because his dad has baited me.
- He was trying to help some of his female German fellow workers who were being harassed and baited with cries of ‘work-shy Turks’.
Synonyms
taunt, goad, provoke, pick on, torment, torture, persecute, badger, plague, harry, harass, hound, tease, annoy, irritate, get someone's back up
informal hassle, needle, give someone a hard time, wind up, nark
1. 1.1 Cause dogs to attack (a trapped or restrained animal)
  people who bait badgers
  Example sentencesExamples
  They also kill badgers as well by something called baiting, but I don't know much about that.
  The badgers are baited by terriers and those who watch them bet large amounts of money on which terrier will put up the best fight against the badger.
  Unrestrained dogs can easily be baited or distracted.
  Fife Constabulary's wildlife crime officer described baiting, specially trained dogs being set on badgers, as brutally vicious.
  Supporters of a ballot proposal that would ban bear trapping, baiting and hunting with dogs were upset over an ad that began running in September featuring a state biologist opposing the initiative.
  And characteristics desired at earlier times for fighting and baiting purposes were exaggerated so that the unfortunate dog became unhappily abnormal.
  Gangs of New York leaves the viewer drunk and euphoric on the sight of so much blood, like the Five Points crowds that flock to the dog baiting matches or cheer Bill on as he performs his ‘fearsome acts’.
  Bull owners pride themselves on making their animals as aggressive as possible either by baiting them or feeding them large quantities of arrack, the local firewater.
  The deer baited by the Ward Union Stag Hunt are, by definition, tame animals, as they have been confined and farmed by the Hunt.
  The only record we have of Henslowe's polar bears being put to any use is that one of them was baited with dogs while swimming in the Thames, for the amusement of the Spanish ambassador.
  Dogs were often used to bait lions, tigers, bears, and other big mammals as part of bloody spectacles popular with the king and paying visitors.
  Of course, if you'd rather bait bears - well, it's a rather unpleasant thing to do, and you shouldn't.
  In the Middle Ages they were used to chase wild boar, to bait bulls and were also used as bodyguards.
  Most think that it refers to the fact that an albino bear was baited here.
  Fight the good fight and stop fox baiting now and leave the beaches open for every living creature that God created.
2Put bait on (a hook) or in (a trap, net, or fishing area) to entice fish or animals.
（诱捕鱼或其他动物的）饵
I used a hook baited with fat
我用的是有肥肉做饵的钩。
Example sentencesExamples
- The hook was baited with a little wet bread and the tackle landed on top of the very small ball of fluidised bread that I had just introduced.
- The float was locked in position by the bulk shot, with only a number 4 shot about 1ft from the size 8 hook that was baited with a piece of flake.
- Wall text explains that Joo rigged a camera inside an embalmed caribou carcass, left it in the woods baited with fresh meat and attempted to restart nature's feeding cycles.
- What would it feel like to bait a hook with one of these animals, and reel in a fifty-pound largemouth?
- Literally hundreds of millions of hooks are baited on long lines, and albatrosses have come to see fishing boats as a food source - albeit a very dangerous one.
- Moving quietly into position, the hook was baited with a big chunk of meat.
- The hook was baited with two maggots and the tackle fished a few inches over-depth.
- Every time one of her grandkids goes fishing and baits a hook the way Grandma taught them to do, her immortality is assured.
- Michael would have to learn to bait the hooks, clean and filet the fish and pack gear when they went ashore.
- A third apple trial was conducted during 2002 in the Moxee apple orchard to examine if oviposition could be stimulated to occur on non-bearing shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures.
- The size 1 hair-rigged hook was baited with two standard boilies with a pop-up on top.
- We sat beneath the willows, and Cadmar dug for red worms with a little spade he took from his basket, and then both he and Gyric baited the hooks, and tied the thread lines to willow wands which Cadmar cut fresh.
- The time to respond to requests for block baiting, which is Chicago's term for setting out baited glue-board traps for alley rats, has doubled since 2001.
- Use a drop or two on the fingertips before baiting up.
- In addition, approximately 2-fold more eggs were laid in cages baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures versus with solvent-only lures in no-choice tests.
- No eggs were deposited on non-bearing apple shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD or the solvent control lures during the 2002 study.
- Fishing is allowed; however, your child should not bait the hook, take the fish off the hook, or clean the fish.
- The hook was baited with sweetcorn and I caught a last ocean-going roach at midnight for the hell of it.
- Before baiting, mow the grass so more bait can reach the trails and burrows used by voles.
- They learn how to fish, including how to bait the hook, tie knots and rig tackle, even back up a trailer and dock a boat.

Phrases

fish or cut bait

informal Stop vacillating and decide to act on or disengage from something.
〈北美，非正式〉要么全力以赴要么索性放弃
when it comes to flagging brands, companies are being forced to fish or cut bait
Example sentencesExamples
- Since this man loves fishing, he will no doubt understand when you tell him to fish or cut bait, that you are moving with the children and he is welcome to accept a job and join you.
- After more than two and a half years of studying ocean ills and opportunities, a blue-ribbon panel of experts says it's time to fish or cut bait.
- At some point in a long distance/physical strangers relationship, you realize it's time to fish or cut bait.
- By the second season of any TV show, you usually know if it's going to fish or cut bait.
- ‘When Ben decided he wanted to come back, we knew we had to fish or cut bait,’ says Cris.

rise to the bait

React to a provocation or temptation exactly as intended.
上钩
Jenny was being provocatively rude, but he never rose to the bait
Example sentencesExamples
- He tried to provoke Mr Archer, who is in his 40s, into a street fight but he did not rise to the bait, even when he had turned away and was pushed in the back.
- If she refuses to rise to the bait and respond to the remark, she is taken to have tacitly admitted the truth of the accusation.
- It's precisely because Beckham isn't rising to the bait that Luccin can afford to be so bold.
- He almost rose to the bait when a financial journalist as much as accused him personally for being responsible for the overnight increase of the euro against the dollar.
- Boris rose to the bait, advertised his coming appearance in Hamlet, commissioned a translation, and starred in it, as promised.
Synonyms
fight back, strike back, hit back, respond, react, reply, reciprocate, counterattack, return fire, return the compliment, put up a fight, take the bait, rise to the bait, return like for like, get back at someone, get, give tit for tat, give as good as one gets, let someone see how it feels, give someone a dose of their own medicine, give someone a taste of their own medicine

with baited breath

misspelling of "with bated breath" at bated

Derivatives

baiter

noun

As for Brian, he says he was finally won over because the baiter was so incredibly persistent.
Example sentencesExamples
- He is belittled as a race baiter and attention seeker.
- They should come out and boldly take legal action against the baiter.
- Scenting blood, he snorts like a bull that has his former baiter defenceless on the deck.
- Hastings pleasantly offered to act in the capacity of general baiter and taker off of fish.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse beit 'pasture, food', beita 'to hunt or chase'.

abet from Late Middle English:
If you abet someone these days you are very likely to be up to no good, but this was not always the case. Since the late 18th century the word has mainly been found as aid and abet, ‘to help and encourage someone in some wrongdoing’, but in its early use to abet someone was simply to urge them to do something, not necessarily bad. It comes from the Old French word abeter, which could also mean ‘to encourage a hound to bite’. bait (Middle English) has a similar root.

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight

Definition of bait in US English:

bait

nounbātbeɪt

1Food used to entice fish or other animals as prey.
herrings make excellent bait for pike
fishing with live baits
Example sentencesExamples
- The secret is to look hard for the fish and to present baits in any areas that warrant a cast.
- One fish took my entire bait off the hook with no problem.
- The saltwater fisherman drifting a natural bait on a circle hook can free-spool several counts of line, then throw the reel in gear and point the rod at the fish.
- The bigger question is whether the Hispanic population is going to put up with the inevitable race baiting that underlies these periodic bash-fests.
- Quickly and happily, I went back to the truck to grab my fishing rod and some bait.
- If MCM inspectors catch anyone fishing or collecting bait or shellfish in these areas they will issue fines.
- This week we will look at introducing bait to get the fish feeding in the right areas.
- The advantage of using chum is that the slowly settling bits of bait can draw deep fish to the surface; this allows the astute angler to be selective.
- We are more concerned here with the marine species aspect of the study which began after the Government announced that it was considering a ban on using live worms as fish bait!
- This movement carries a smorgasbord of bait to schools of fish ganged in or near the cuts.
- This fish is commonly used for bait in the fishing industry.
- The fishing in turbulent, sandy water usually is best on natural bait fished with a big rig and heavy weight near bottom.
- This would be suitable for all bait fishing with dead or live baits of a reasonable size.
- Most are small, less than three or four feet, but occasionally a pier or jetty angler soaking a big bait hooks a fish with real shoulders.
- The exception might be near the mouth of a free-running pass, where outgoing flow might carry bait and fish from the bay into the surf.
- They took a sailfish on live fish bait suspended approximately 20 feet below the surface at 11: 10 in the morning.
- The possum industry would trap or use cyanide-laden bait so that the animals could be recovered and used.
- The hotel caters for many avid fishers, and can store bait and fishing rods for Dave and Deirdre.
- Since when has the colour of the weights we use stopped the fish eating our bait?.
- Of my four children, he was the one with endless patience, the one who read up on fishing techniques, different bait, hooks, lures, whatever.
Synonyms
lure, decoy, fly, troll, jig, plug, teaser
1. 1.1 An allurement; a thing intended to tempt or entice.
  many potential buyers are reluctant to take the bait
  she used the prospect of freedom as bait to trap him into talking
  她用自由的前景作诱饵使他开口。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I gritted my teeth and decided not to take the bait.
  If you are so against feuds being artificially built up by the media then don't take the bait and shoot your mouth off in response.
  The congressional subpoenas were fishing lines with no bait and no hook.
  Not that he would ever actually be elected PM, but you know what I mean - there's not even the potential for it if he won't take the bait, right?
  When stars light up on the big screen, do kids take the bait?
  If you're inclined to take the bait, proceed with caution.
  She wanted to see if Katherine would take the bait.
  So far most Shiites have declined to take the bait.
  If only they knew that the only way to prevent this happening is if they didn't take the bait.
  She was tossing me bait, like she had for years, but this time I didn't want it.
  With Fox out of the picture (at least until the story breaks elsewhere), who's going to take the bait?
  Will the PM's morning radio female Piranha take the bait?
  So he had no bait on a fishing trip, so to speak; and Mr. Ha was just waiting to be reeled in at midnight.
  He was smart enough by now not to take the bait and sighed as he pulled into a parking spot.
  I believe this is a red herring that has worked well in past arguments and you keep hoping for someone to take the bait once again.
  King didn't take the bait, but he was assassinated two years later in Memphis.
  Asked how good a player Carter might become, he refuses to take the bait, and issues a warning instead.
  If only 100 recipients take the bait, it is worthwhile since emails cost next to nothing to output.
  And after a few days of dangling it in front of you like bait, which you were all smart enough not to jump at, he never did call her.
  The only major-league acts yet to take the bait are the Smiths, the Jam and the Police - but it's only a matter of time.
  Synonyms
  enticement, lure, decoy, snare, trap, siren, carrot, attraction, draw, magnet, incentive, temptation, allurement, incitement, inducement
2
variant spelling of bate

verbbātbeɪt

[with object]

1Deliberately annoy or taunt (someone)
骚扰；逗弄
the other boys reveled in baiting him about his love of literature
其他男孩都爱拿他对文学的热爱来嘲弄他。
Example sentencesExamples
- These kids are baiting me because they want to hear it from my own mouth.
- But it wasn't only journalists of the left who indulged in Israel baiting.
- We argued, pushed, pulled, baited, yelled, and eventually the lady kicked us out telling us to just go home.
- I don't want him to see me give in to the weight of those urges because his dad has baited me.
- Dante couldn't help baiting and rubbing her face in her partner's betrayal.
- Born and reared in the east Alabama town of Oxford, the Navy veteran and ex-radio deejay had fashioned a career out of controversy and race baiting.
- In soccer it has nearly become acceptable to bait opposing fans, to chant and jeer at the other team's followers.
- The younger girl wondered if Sanura was baiting her, teasing her like she always did, or if she knew what she was really saying to Kira.
- Even to those who consistently disagree with and bait me, I appreciate your comments and thoughts because you keep me thinking.
- He was trying to help some of his female German fellow workers who were being harassed and baited with cries of ‘work-shy Turks’.
- But, I probably wouldn't expect to avoid it if I baited and insulted a bunch of great big thugs who hold a different political point of view.
- This movie doesn't begin to understand what movies are all about, and uses race and race baiting as a means of telling an overly tepid tale about street justice.
- He came into office promising Black Power in the city, then made a career out of gratuitous race baiting and thumbing his nose at the white suburbs.
- I wondered if he was just trying to bait me, jokingly tease me.
- He indulged in some East Coast baiting and proclaimed Los Angeles to be the center of the world.
- My government actually has to bait people with catchy song in order to do the thing that should be a civic duty.
- My surprise was magnified when, instead of baiting me, Cale took one deliberate step forward and lazily asked, ‘So, are you going to eat lunch?’
- But the kids of the local came around and started baiting that daft little girl.
- When was the last time you had blatant race baiting?
- All of this happened while he endured endless taunting and baiting by racist opponents and hostile crowds and frigid responses from some of his own teammates.
Synonyms
taunt, goad, provoke, pick on, torment, torture, persecute, badger, plague, harry, harass, hound, tease, annoy, irritate, get someone's back up
1. 1.1 Torment (a trapped or restrained animal), especially by allowing dogs to attack it.
  折磨（被困的动物）（尤指放狗攻击）
  Example sentencesExamples
  They also kill badgers as well by something called baiting, but I don't know much about that.
  Fight the good fight and stop fox baiting now and leave the beaches open for every living creature that God created.
  And characteristics desired at earlier times for fighting and baiting purposes were exaggerated so that the unfortunate dog became unhappily abnormal.
  Bull owners pride themselves on making their animals as aggressive as possible either by baiting them or feeding them large quantities of arrack, the local firewater.
  Supporters of a ballot proposal that would ban bear trapping, baiting and hunting with dogs were upset over an ad that began running in September featuring a state biologist opposing the initiative.
  In the Middle Ages they were used to chase wild boar, to bait bulls and were also used as bodyguards.
  The deer baited by the Ward Union Stag Hunt are, by definition, tame animals, as they have been confined and farmed by the Hunt.
  Gangs of New York leaves the viewer drunk and euphoric on the sight of so much blood, like the Five Points crowds that flock to the dog baiting matches or cheer Bill on as he performs his ‘fearsome acts’.
  Of course, if you'd rather bait bears - well, it's a rather unpleasant thing to do, and you shouldn't.
  Most think that it refers to the fact that an albino bear was baited here.
  The only record we have of Henslowe's polar bears being put to any use is that one of them was baited with dogs while swimming in the Thames, for the amusement of the Spanish ambassador.
  Fife Constabulary's wildlife crime officer described baiting, specially trained dogs being set on badgers, as brutally vicious.
  Dogs were often used to bait lions, tigers, bears, and other big mammals as part of bloody spectacles popular with the king and paying visitors.
  Unrestrained dogs can easily be baited or distracted.
  The badgers are baited by terriers and those who watch them bet large amounts of money on which terrier will put up the best fight against the badger.
2Prepare (a hook, trap, net, or fishing area) with bait to entice fish or animals as prey.
（诱捕鱼或其他动物的）饵
she baited a trap with carrots and corn
Example sentencesExamples
- Michael would have to learn to bait the hooks, clean and filet the fish and pack gear when they went ashore.
- A third apple trial was conducted during 2002 in the Moxee apple orchard to examine if oviposition could be stimulated to occur on non-bearing shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures.
- In addition, approximately 2-fold more eggs were laid in cages baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures versus with solvent-only lures in no-choice tests.
- Wall text explains that Joo rigged a camera inside an embalmed caribou carcass, left it in the woods baited with fresh meat and attempted to restart nature's feeding cycles.
- The hook was baited with two maggots and the tackle fished a few inches over-depth.
- The float was locked in position by the bulk shot, with only a number 4 shot about 1ft from the size 8 hook that was baited with a piece of flake.
- Every time one of her grandkids goes fishing and baits a hook the way Grandma taught them to do, her immortality is assured.
- Use a drop or two on the fingertips before baiting up.
- Fishing is allowed; however, your child should not bait the hook, take the fish off the hook, or clean the fish.
- The time to respond to requests for block baiting, which is Chicago's term for setting out baited glue-board traps for alley rats, has doubled since 2001.
- What would it feel like to bait a hook with one of these animals, and reel in a fifty-pound largemouth?
- No eggs were deposited on non-bearing apple shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD or the solvent control lures during the 2002 study.
- The hook was baited with sweetcorn and I caught a last ocean-going roach at midnight for the hell of it.
- They learn how to fish, including how to bait the hook, tie knots and rig tackle, even back up a trailer and dock a boat.
- We sat beneath the willows, and Cadmar dug for red worms with a little spade he took from his basket, and then both he and Gyric baited the hooks, and tied the thread lines to willow wands which Cadmar cut fresh.
- The size 1 hair-rigged hook was baited with two standard boilies with a pop-up on top.
- Literally hundreds of millions of hooks are baited on long lines, and albatrosses have come to see fishing boats as a food source - albeit a very dangerous one.
- Before baiting, mow the grass so more bait can reach the trails and burrows used by voles.
- The hook was baited with a little wet bread and the tackle landed on top of the very small ball of fluidised bread that I had just introduced.
- Moving quietly into position, the hook was baited with a big chunk of meat.

Usage

See bated

Phrases

fish or cut bait

informal Stop vacillating and act on something or disengage from it.
〈北美，非正式〉要么全力以赴要么索性放弃
when it comes to flagging brands, companies are being forced to fish or cut bait
Example sentencesExamples
- Since this man loves fishing, he will no doubt understand when you tell him to fish or cut bait, that you are moving with the children and he is welcome to accept a job and join you.
- After more than two and a half years of studying ocean ills and opportunities, a blue-ribbon panel of experts says it's time to fish or cut bait.
- At some point in a long distance/physical strangers relationship, you realize it's time to fish or cut bait.
- ‘When Ben decided he wanted to come back, we knew we had to fish or cut bait,’ says Cris.
- By the second season of any TV show, you usually know if it's going to fish or cut bait.

rise to the bait

React to a provocation or temptation exactly as intended.
上钩
Jenny was being provocatively rude, but he never rose to the bait
Example sentencesExamples
- If she refuses to rise to the bait and respond to the remark, she is taken to have tacitly admitted the truth of the accusation.
- He tried to provoke Mr Archer, who is in his 40s, into a street fight but he did not rise to the bait, even when he had turned away and was pushed in the back.
- Boris rose to the bait, advertised his coming appearance in Hamlet, commissioned a translation, and starred in it, as promised.
- It's precisely because Beckham isn't rising to the bait that Luccin can afford to be so bold.
- He almost rose to the bait when a financial journalist as much as accused him personally for being responsible for the overnight increase of the euro against the dollar.
Synonyms
fight back, strike back, hit back, respond, react, reply, reciprocate, counterattack, return fire, return the compliment, put up a fight, take the bait, rise to the bait, return like for like, get back at someone, get, give tit for tat, give as good as one gets, let someone see how it feels, give someone a dose of their own medicine, give someone a taste of their own medicine

with baited breath

misspelling of "with bated breath" at bated

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse beit ‘pasture, food’, beita ‘to hunt or chase’.

词汇	bait
释义	Definition of bait in English: bait noun beɪtbeɪt 1mass noun Food placed on a hook or in a net, trap, or fishing area to entice fish or other animals as prey. （诱捕鱼或其他动物的）饵 herrings make excellent bait for pike count noun fishing with live baits Example sentencesExamples The fishing in turbulent, sandy water usually is best on natural bait fished with a big rig and heavy weight near bottom. They took a sailfish on live fish bait suspended approximately 20 feet below the surface at 11: 10 in the morning. One fish took my entire bait off the hook with no problem. The advantage of using chum is that the slowly settling bits of bait can draw deep fish to the surface; this allows the astute angler to be selective. If MCM inspectors catch anyone fishing or collecting bait or shellfish in these areas they will issue fines. The exception might be near the mouth of a free-running pass, where outgoing flow might carry bait and fish from the bay into the surf. Since when has the colour of the weights we use stopped the fish eating our bait?. This week we will look at introducing bait to get the fish feeding in the right areas. Quickly and happily, I went back to the truck to grab my fishing rod and some bait. The hotel caters for many avid fishers, and can store bait and fishing rods for Dave and Deirdre. The secret is to look hard for the fish and to present baits in any areas that warrant a cast. Of my four children, he was the one with endless patience, the one who read up on fishing techniques, different bait, hooks, lures, whatever. The saltwater fisherman drifting a natural bait on a circle hook can free-spool several counts of line, then throw the reel in gear and point the rod at the fish. This movement carries a smorgasbord of bait to schools of fish ganged in or near the cuts. The possum industry would trap or use cyanide-laden bait so that the animals could be recovered and used. This would be suitable for all bait fishing with dead or live baits of a reasonable size. The bigger question is whether the Hispanic population is going to put up with the inevitable race baiting that underlies these periodic bash-fests. We are more concerned here with the marine species aspect of the study which began after the Government announced that it was considering a ban on using live worms as fish bait! Most are small, less than three or four feet, but occasionally a pier or jetty angler soaking a big bait hooks a fish with real shoulders. This fish is commonly used for bait in the fishing industry. Synonyms lure, decoy, fly, troll, jig, plug, teaser 1.1 Something intended to entice someone to do something. 诱惑；诱饵 many potential buyers are reluctant to take the bait Example sentencesExamples If you are so against feuds being artificially built up by the media then don't take the bait and shoot your mouth off in response. The congressional subpoenas were fishing lines with no bait and no hook. With Fox out of the picture (at least until the story breaks elsewhere), who's going to take the bait? And after a few days of dangling it in front of you like bait, which you were all smart enough not to jump at, he never did call her. If you're inclined to take the bait, proceed with caution. I gritted my teeth and decided not to take the bait. King didn't take the bait, but he was assassinated two years later in Memphis. If only 100 recipients take the bait, it is worthwhile since emails cost next to nothing to output. She wanted to see if Katherine would take the bait. Not that he would ever actually be elected PM, but you know what I mean - there's not even the potential for it if he won't take the bait, right? Asked how good a player Carter might become, he refuses to take the bait, and issues a warning instead. If only they knew that the only way to prevent this happening is if they didn't take the bait. When stars light up on the big screen, do kids take the bait? She was tossing me bait, like she had for years, but this time I didn't want it. I believe this is a red herring that has worked well in past arguments and you keep hoping for someone to take the bait once again. The only major-league acts yet to take the bait are the Smiths, the Jam and the Police - but it's only a matter of time. So far most Shiites have declined to take the bait. So he had no bait on a fishing trip, so to speak; and Mr. Ha was just waiting to be reeled in at midnight. He was smart enough by now not to take the bait and sighed as he pulled into a parking spot. Will the PM's morning radio female Piranha take the bait? Synonyms enticement, lure, decoy, snare, trap, siren, carrot, attraction, draw, magnet, incentive, temptation, allurement, incitement, inducement informal come-on 2 variant spelling of bate verb beɪtbeɪt [with object] 1Deliberately annoy or taunt (someone) 骚扰；逗弄 the other boys revelled in baiting him about his love of literature 其他男孩都爱拿他对文学的热爱来嘲弄他。 Example sentencesExamples He came into office promising Black Power in the city, then made a career out of gratuitous race baiting and thumbing his nose at the white suburbs. When was the last time you had blatant race baiting? The younger girl wondered if Sanura was baiting her, teasing her like she always did, or if she knew what she was really saying to Kira. This movie doesn't begin to understand what movies are all about, and uses race and race baiting as a means of telling an overly tepid tale about street justice. But it wasn't only journalists of the left who indulged in Israel baiting. Dante couldn't help baiting and rubbing her face in her partner's betrayal. He indulged in some East Coast baiting and proclaimed Los Angeles to be the center of the world. Even to those who consistently disagree with and bait me, I appreciate your comments and thoughts because you keep me thinking. My government actually has to bait people with catchy song in order to do the thing that should be a civic duty. But the kids of the local came around and started baiting that daft little girl. I wondered if he was just trying to bait me, jokingly tease me. Born and reared in the east Alabama town of Oxford, the Navy veteran and ex-radio deejay had fashioned a career out of controversy and race baiting. All of this happened while he endured endless taunting and baiting by racist opponents and hostile crowds and frigid responses from some of his own teammates. But, I probably wouldn't expect to avoid it if I baited and insulted a bunch of great big thugs who hold a different political point of view. My surprise was magnified when, instead of baiting me, Cale took one deliberate step forward and lazily asked, ‘So, are you going to eat lunch?’ In soccer it has nearly become acceptable to bait opposing fans, to chant and jeer at the other team's followers. We argued, pushed, pulled, baited, yelled, and eventually the lady kicked us out telling us to just go home. These kids are baiting me because they want to hear it from my own mouth. I don't want him to see me give in to the weight of those urges because his dad has baited me. He was trying to help some of his female German fellow workers who were being harassed and baited with cries of ‘work-shy Turks’. Synonyms taunt, goad, provoke, pick on, torment, torture, persecute, badger, plague, harry, harass, hound, tease, annoy, irritate, get someone's back up informal hassle, needle, give someone a hard time, wind up, nark 1.1 Cause dogs to attack (a trapped or restrained animal) people who bait badgers Example sentencesExamples They also kill badgers as well by something called baiting, but I don't know much about that. The badgers are baited by terriers and those who watch them bet large amounts of money on which terrier will put up the best fight against the badger. Unrestrained dogs can easily be baited or distracted. Fife Constabulary's wildlife crime officer described baiting, specially trained dogs being set on badgers, as brutally vicious. Supporters of a ballot proposal that would ban bear trapping, baiting and hunting with dogs were upset over an ad that began running in September featuring a state biologist opposing the initiative. And characteristics desired at earlier times for fighting and baiting purposes were exaggerated so that the unfortunate dog became unhappily abnormal. Gangs of New York leaves the viewer drunk and euphoric on the sight of so much blood, like the Five Points crowds that flock to the dog baiting matches or cheer Bill on as he performs his ‘fearsome acts’. Bull owners pride themselves on making their animals as aggressive as possible either by baiting them or feeding them large quantities of arrack, the local firewater. The deer baited by the Ward Union Stag Hunt are, by definition, tame animals, as they have been confined and farmed by the Hunt. The only record we have of Henslowe's polar bears being put to any use is that one of them was baited with dogs while swimming in the Thames, for the amusement of the Spanish ambassador. Dogs were often used to bait lions, tigers, bears, and other big mammals as part of bloody spectacles popular with the king and paying visitors. Of course, if you'd rather bait bears - well, it's a rather unpleasant thing to do, and you shouldn't. In the Middle Ages they were used to chase wild boar, to bait bulls and were also used as bodyguards. Most think that it refers to the fact that an albino bear was baited here. Fight the good fight and stop fox baiting now and leave the beaches open for every living creature that God created. 2Put bait on (a hook) or in (a trap, net, or fishing area) to entice fish or animals. （诱捕鱼或其他动物的）饵 I used a hook baited with fat 我用的是有肥肉做饵的钩。 Example sentencesExamples The hook was baited with a little wet bread and the tackle landed on top of the very small ball of fluidised bread that I had just introduced. The float was locked in position by the bulk shot, with only a number 4 shot about 1ft from the size 8 hook that was baited with a piece of flake. Wall text explains that Joo rigged a camera inside an embalmed caribou carcass, left it in the woods baited with fresh meat and attempted to restart nature's feeding cycles. What would it feel like to bait a hook with one of these animals, and reel in a fifty-pound largemouth? Literally hundreds of millions of hooks are baited on long lines, and albatrosses have come to see fishing boats as a food source - albeit a very dangerous one. Moving quietly into position, the hook was baited with a big chunk of meat. The hook was baited with two maggots and the tackle fished a few inches over-depth. Every time one of her grandkids goes fishing and baits a hook the way Grandma taught them to do, her immortality is assured. Michael would have to learn to bait the hooks, clean and filet the fish and pack gear when they went ashore. A third apple trial was conducted during 2002 in the Moxee apple orchard to examine if oviposition could be stimulated to occur on non-bearing shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures. The size 1 hair-rigged hook was baited with two standard boilies with a pop-up on top. We sat beneath the willows, and Cadmar dug for red worms with a little spade he took from his basket, and then both he and Gyric baited the hooks, and tied the thread lines to willow wands which Cadmar cut fresh. The time to respond to requests for block baiting, which is Chicago's term for setting out baited glue-board traps for alley rats, has doubled since 2001. Use a drop or two on the fingertips before baiting up. In addition, approximately 2-fold more eggs were laid in cages baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures versus with solvent-only lures in no-choice tests. No eggs were deposited on non-bearing apple shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD or the solvent control lures during the 2002 study. Fishing is allowed; however, your child should not bait the hook, take the fish off the hook, or clean the fish. The hook was baited with sweetcorn and I caught a last ocean-going roach at midnight for the hell of it. Before baiting, mow the grass so more bait can reach the trails and burrows used by voles. They learn how to fish, including how to bait the hook, tie knots and rig tackle, even back up a trailer and dock a boat. Phrases fish or cut bait informal Stop vacillating and decide to act on or disengage from something. 〈北美，非正式〉要么全力以赴要么索性放弃 when it comes to flagging brands, companies are being forced to fish or cut bait Example sentencesExamples Since this man loves fishing, he will no doubt understand when you tell him to fish or cut bait, that you are moving with the children and he is welcome to accept a job and join you. After more than two and a half years of studying ocean ills and opportunities, a blue-ribbon panel of experts says it's time to fish or cut bait. At some point in a long distance/physical strangers relationship, you realize it's time to fish or cut bait. By the second season of any TV show, you usually know if it's going to fish or cut bait. ‘When Ben decided he wanted to come back, we knew we had to fish or cut bait,’ says Cris. rise to the bait React to a provocation or temptation exactly as intended. 上钩 Jenny was being provocatively rude, but he never rose to the bait Example sentencesExamples He tried to provoke Mr Archer, who is in his 40s, into a street fight but he did not rise to the bait, even when he had turned away and was pushed in the back. If she refuses to rise to the bait and respond to the remark, she is taken to have tacitly admitted the truth of the accusation. It's precisely because Beckham isn't rising to the bait that Luccin can afford to be so bold. He almost rose to the bait when a financial journalist as much as accused him personally for being responsible for the overnight increase of the euro against the dollar. Boris rose to the bait, advertised his coming appearance in Hamlet, commissioned a translation, and starred in it, as promised. Synonyms fight back, strike back, hit back, respond, react, reply, reciprocate, counterattack, return fire, return the compliment, put up a fight, take the bait, rise to the bait, return like for like, get back at someone, get, give tit for tat, give as good as one gets, let someone see how it feels, give someone a dose of their own medicine, give someone a taste of their own medicine with baited breath misspelling of "with bated breath" at bated Derivatives baiter noun As for Brian, he says he was finally won over because the baiter was so incredibly persistent. Example sentencesExamples He is belittled as a race baiter and attention seeker. They should come out and boldly take legal action against the baiter. Scenting blood, he snorts like a bull that has his former baiter defenceless on the deck. Hastings pleasantly offered to act in the capacity of general baiter and taker off of fish. Origin Middle English: from Old Norse beit 'pasture, food', beita 'to hunt or chase'. abet from Late Middle English: If you abet someone these days you are very likely to be up to no good, but this was not always the case. Since the late 18th century the word has mainly been found as aid and abet, ‘to help and encourage someone in some wrongdoing’, but in its early use to abet someone was simply to urge them to do something, not necessarily bad. It comes from the Old French word abeter, which could also mean ‘to encourage a hound to bite’. bait (Middle English) has a similar root. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight noun.1 phr. Definition of bait in US English: bait nounbātbeɪt 1Food used to entice fish or other animals as prey. herrings make excellent bait for pike fishing with live baits Example sentencesExamples The secret is to look hard for the fish and to present baits in any areas that warrant a cast. One fish took my entire bait off the hook with no problem. The saltwater fisherman drifting a natural bait on a circle hook can free-spool several counts of line, then throw the reel in gear and point the rod at the fish. The bigger question is whether the Hispanic population is going to put up with the inevitable race baiting that underlies these periodic bash-fests. Quickly and happily, I went back to the truck to grab my fishing rod and some bait. If MCM inspectors catch anyone fishing or collecting bait or shellfish in these areas they will issue fines. This week we will look at introducing bait to get the fish feeding in the right areas. The advantage of using chum is that the slowly settling bits of bait can draw deep fish to the surface; this allows the astute angler to be selective. We are more concerned here with the marine species aspect of the study which began after the Government announced that it was considering a ban on using live worms as fish bait! This movement carries a smorgasbord of bait to schools of fish ganged in or near the cuts. This fish is commonly used for bait in the fishing industry. The fishing in turbulent, sandy water usually is best on natural bait fished with a big rig and heavy weight near bottom. This would be suitable for all bait fishing with dead or live baits of a reasonable size. Most are small, less than three or four feet, but occasionally a pier or jetty angler soaking a big bait hooks a fish with real shoulders. The exception might be near the mouth of a free-running pass, where outgoing flow might carry bait and fish from the bay into the surf. They took a sailfish on live fish bait suspended approximately 20 feet below the surface at 11: 10 in the morning. The possum industry would trap or use cyanide-laden bait so that the animals could be recovered and used. The hotel caters for many avid fishers, and can store bait and fishing rods for Dave and Deirdre. Since when has the colour of the weights we use stopped the fish eating our bait?. Of my four children, he was the one with endless patience, the one who read up on fishing techniques, different bait, hooks, lures, whatever. Synonyms lure, decoy, fly, troll, jig, plug, teaser 1.1 An allurement; a thing intended to tempt or entice. many potential buyers are reluctant to take the bait she used the prospect of freedom as bait to trap him into talking 她用自由的前景作诱饵使他开口。 Example sentencesExamples I gritted my teeth and decided not to take the bait. If you are so against feuds being artificially built up by the media then don't take the bait and shoot your mouth off in response. The congressional subpoenas were fishing lines with no bait and no hook. Not that he would ever actually be elected PM, but you know what I mean - there's not even the potential for it if he won't take the bait, right? When stars light up on the big screen, do kids take the bait? If you're inclined to take the bait, proceed with caution. She wanted to see if Katherine would take the bait. So far most Shiites have declined to take the bait. If only they knew that the only way to prevent this happening is if they didn't take the bait. She was tossing me bait, like she had for years, but this time I didn't want it. With Fox out of the picture (at least until the story breaks elsewhere), who's going to take the bait? Will the PM's morning radio female Piranha take the bait? So he had no bait on a fishing trip, so to speak; and Mr. Ha was just waiting to be reeled in at midnight. He was smart enough by now not to take the bait and sighed as he pulled into a parking spot. I believe this is a red herring that has worked well in past arguments and you keep hoping for someone to take the bait once again. King didn't take the bait, but he was assassinated two years later in Memphis. Asked how good a player Carter might become, he refuses to take the bait, and issues a warning instead. If only 100 recipients take the bait, it is worthwhile since emails cost next to nothing to output. And after a few days of dangling it in front of you like bait, which you were all smart enough not to jump at, he never did call her. The only major-league acts yet to take the bait are the Smiths, the Jam and the Police - but it's only a matter of time. Synonyms enticement, lure, decoy, snare, trap, siren, carrot, attraction, draw, magnet, incentive, temptation, allurement, incitement, inducement 2 variant spelling of bate verbbātbeɪt [with object] 1Deliberately annoy or taunt (someone) 骚扰；逗弄 the other boys reveled in baiting him about his love of literature 其他男孩都爱拿他对文学的热爱来嘲弄他。 Example sentencesExamples These kids are baiting me because they want to hear it from my own mouth. But it wasn't only journalists of the left who indulged in Israel baiting. We argued, pushed, pulled, baited, yelled, and eventually the lady kicked us out telling us to just go home. I don't want him to see me give in to the weight of those urges because his dad has baited me. Dante couldn't help baiting and rubbing her face in her partner's betrayal. Born and reared in the east Alabama town of Oxford, the Navy veteran and ex-radio deejay had fashioned a career out of controversy and race baiting. In soccer it has nearly become acceptable to bait opposing fans, to chant and jeer at the other team's followers. The younger girl wondered if Sanura was baiting her, teasing her like she always did, or if she knew what she was really saying to Kira. Even to those who consistently disagree with and bait me, I appreciate your comments and thoughts because you keep me thinking. He was trying to help some of his female German fellow workers who were being harassed and baited with cries of ‘work-shy Turks’. But, I probably wouldn't expect to avoid it if I baited and insulted a bunch of great big thugs who hold a different political point of view. This movie doesn't begin to understand what movies are all about, and uses race and race baiting as a means of telling an overly tepid tale about street justice. He came into office promising Black Power in the city, then made a career out of gratuitous race baiting and thumbing his nose at the white suburbs. I wondered if he was just trying to bait me, jokingly tease me. He indulged in some East Coast baiting and proclaimed Los Angeles to be the center of the world. My government actually has to bait people with catchy song in order to do the thing that should be a civic duty. My surprise was magnified when, instead of baiting me, Cale took one deliberate step forward and lazily asked, ‘So, are you going to eat lunch?’ But the kids of the local came around and started baiting that daft little girl. When was the last time you had blatant race baiting? All of this happened while he endured endless taunting and baiting by racist opponents and hostile crowds and frigid responses from some of his own teammates. Synonyms taunt, goad, provoke, pick on, torment, torture, persecute, badger, plague, harry, harass, hound, tease, annoy, irritate, get someone's back up 1.1 Torment (a trapped or restrained animal), especially by allowing dogs to attack it. 折磨（被困的动物）（尤指放狗攻击） Example sentencesExamples They also kill badgers as well by something called baiting, but I don't know much about that. Fight the good fight and stop fox baiting now and leave the beaches open for every living creature that God created. And characteristics desired at earlier times for fighting and baiting purposes were exaggerated so that the unfortunate dog became unhappily abnormal. Bull owners pride themselves on making their animals as aggressive as possible either by baiting them or feeding them large quantities of arrack, the local firewater. Supporters of a ballot proposal that would ban bear trapping, baiting and hunting with dogs were upset over an ad that began running in September featuring a state biologist opposing the initiative. In the Middle Ages they were used to chase wild boar, to bait bulls and were also used as bodyguards. The deer baited by the Ward Union Stag Hunt are, by definition, tame animals, as they have been confined and farmed by the Hunt. Gangs of New York leaves the viewer drunk and euphoric on the sight of so much blood, like the Five Points crowds that flock to the dog baiting matches or cheer Bill on as he performs his ‘fearsome acts’. Of course, if you'd rather bait bears - well, it's a rather unpleasant thing to do, and you shouldn't. Most think that it refers to the fact that an albino bear was baited here. The only record we have of Henslowe's polar bears being put to any use is that one of them was baited with dogs while swimming in the Thames, for the amusement of the Spanish ambassador. Fife Constabulary's wildlife crime officer described baiting, specially trained dogs being set on badgers, as brutally vicious. Dogs were often used to bait lions, tigers, bears, and other big mammals as part of bloody spectacles popular with the king and paying visitors. Unrestrained dogs can easily be baited or distracted. The badgers are baited by terriers and those who watch them bet large amounts of money on which terrier will put up the best fight against the badger. 2Prepare (a hook, trap, net, or fishing area) with bait to entice fish or animals as prey. （诱捕鱼或其他动物的）饵 she baited a trap with carrots and corn Example sentencesExamples Michael would have to learn to bait the hooks, clean and filet the fish and pack gear when they went ashore. A third apple trial was conducted during 2002 in the Moxee apple orchard to examine if oviposition could be stimulated to occur on non-bearing shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures. In addition, approximately 2-fold more eggs were laid in cages baited with Et-E, Z-DD lures versus with solvent-only lures in no-choice tests. Wall text explains that Joo rigged a camera inside an embalmed caribou carcass, left it in the woods baited with fresh meat and attempted to restart nature's feeding cycles. The hook was baited with two maggots and the tackle fished a few inches over-depth. The float was locked in position by the bulk shot, with only a number 4 shot about 1ft from the size 8 hook that was baited with a piece of flake. Every time one of her grandkids goes fishing and baits a hook the way Grandma taught them to do, her immortality is assured. Use a drop or two on the fingertips before baiting up. Fishing is allowed; however, your child should not bait the hook, take the fish off the hook, or clean the fish. The time to respond to requests for block baiting, which is Chicago's term for setting out baited glue-board traps for alley rats, has doubled since 2001. What would it feel like to bait a hook with one of these animals, and reel in a fifty-pound largemouth? No eggs were deposited on non-bearing apple shoots baited with Et-E, Z-DD or the solvent control lures during the 2002 study. The hook was baited with sweetcorn and I caught a last ocean-going roach at midnight for the hell of it. They learn how to fish, including how to bait the hook, tie knots and rig tackle, even back up a trailer and dock a boat. We sat beneath the willows, and Cadmar dug for red worms with a little spade he took from his basket, and then both he and Gyric baited the hooks, and tied the thread lines to willow wands which Cadmar cut fresh. The size 1 hair-rigged hook was baited with two standard boilies with a pop-up on top. Literally hundreds of millions of hooks are baited on long lines, and albatrosses have come to see fishing boats as a food source - albeit a very dangerous one. Before baiting, mow the grass so more bait can reach the trails and burrows used by voles. The hook was baited with a little wet bread and the tackle landed on top of the very small ball of fluidised bread that I had just introduced. Moving quietly into position, the hook was baited with a big chunk of meat. Usage See bated Phrases fish or cut bait informal Stop vacillating and act on something or disengage from it. 〈北美，非正式〉要么全力以赴要么索性放弃 when it comes to flagging brands, companies are being forced to fish or cut bait Example sentencesExamples Since this man loves fishing, he will no doubt understand when you tell him to fish or cut bait, that you are moving with the children and he is welcome to accept a job and join you. After more than two and a half years of studying ocean ills and opportunities, a blue-ribbon panel of experts says it's time to fish or cut bait. At some point in a long distance/physical strangers relationship, you realize it's time to fish or cut bait. ‘When Ben decided he wanted to come back, we knew we had to fish or cut bait,’ says Cris. By the second season of any TV show, you usually know if it's going to fish or cut bait. rise to the bait React to a provocation or temptation exactly as intended. 上钩 Jenny was being provocatively rude, but he never rose to the bait Example sentencesExamples If she refuses to rise to the bait and respond to the remark, she is taken to have tacitly admitted the truth of the accusation. He tried to provoke Mr Archer, who is in his 40s, into a street fight but he did not rise to the bait, even when he had turned away and was pushed in the back. Boris rose to the bait, advertised his coming appearance in Hamlet, commissioned a translation, and starred in it, as promised. It's precisely because Beckham isn't rising to the bait that Luccin can afford to be so bold. He almost rose to the bait when a financial journalist as much as accused him personally for being responsible for the overnight increase of the euro against the dollar. Synonyms fight back, strike back, hit back, respond, react, reply, reciprocate, counterattack, return fire, return the compliment, put up a fight, take the bait, rise to the bait, return like for like, get back at someone, get, give tit for tat, give as good as one gets, let someone see how it feels, give someone a dose of their own medicine, give someone a taste of their own medicine with baited breath misspelling of "with bated breath" at bated Origin Middle English: from Old Norse beit ‘pasture, food’, beita ‘to hunt or chase’. noun.1 phr.
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