Benjamin Clementine

Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.

English Artist

Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

American President

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Scottish Writer

W. C. Fields

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

American Comedian

Sam Waterston

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

American Actor

Mark Twain

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

American Writer

Mike Tyson

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

American Boxer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

American Philosopher

Frank Gorshin

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

Oliver Goldsmith

Irish Poet

Understand bait is used with intent to catch, not to feed animals.

Purpose of Bait

Bait is also for luring people into situations, often deceptive ones.

Figurative Usage

Bait doesn't have to be edible; it can be anything that attracts.

Not Always Food

Knowing where to put bait is crucial for effective results in trapping.

Bait Placement

After baiting, one often waits patiently for the bait to do its work.

Tactical Waiting

Baiting someone entails a response—it's not just to annoy, but to engage.

Baiting Reaction

People bait others for reasons, like to distract or expose weaknesses.

Underlying Motives

Baiting can lead to confrontations, so it may have negative consequences.

Potential Harm

 responses that we've elicited from animals in the deep sea so the camera is black and white it's not high resolution and what you're seeing here is a bait box with a bunch of like the cockroaches of the ocean they're isopods all over it and right in the front is the electronic jellyfish and when it starts flashing

The weird, wonderful...

 have gone out to do much dog vaccinations we find out that if you tell the people in time even the dogs at Rome will be made available for vaccinations the problem with this notion is that you take away all the efforts that would be taken to mass dog vaccinations and put them into things like baiting

Misconceptions about...

 could be a bear where we're going right and so i just want to have protection for myself for that for the if we happen to have that encounter right now bear baiting is when hunters lay out food for bears and then wait for them to arrive

Baiting Bears PIPE Alaska...

 We're still killing bluefin tuna; truly endangered and much more valuable alive than dead. All of these parts are part of our life support system. We kill using long lines, with baited hooks every few feet

Sylvia Earle: How to...

 Dave's best offensive strategy keeping his toes on the board blessings my body in the water the last thing they got the show on dropping the bait in deep water

Swimming with Sharks PIPE...

 never wasting a fin stroke. Nearly 100 sailfish have surrounded a single school of bait fish. It's very rare to see so many of these hunters in one place.

Sailfish Are Master...

 attractant is bait Rex sodium it's a solid it's heavy we have to vacuum this solid out of the tanker truck otherwise there's no way to reach the narcotics

HAZMAT Weed Bust PIPE...

 nearly a hundred sailfish have surrounded a single school of bait fish it's very rare to see so many of these hunters in one place

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 they were once relentlessly persecuted for sport dug out and baited by dogs now they're protected by law

It's a Badger Brawl PIPE...

 Concrete blocks take the bait down to 200 metres, because tuna swim very deep as well as fast.

Bait

Purpose of Bait

Figurative Usage

Not Always Food

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