Bait Phrases

Phrases

• A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese movie)
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• All is fish that comes to the net
• Alligator bait (a reference to the alleged practice of using black babies to lure alligators into traps)
• Bait and switch
• Big fish eat little fish
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Bigger fish to fry
• Booby trap
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Cold fish
• Cry stinking fish
• Cut bait
• Death trap
• Different kettle of fish
• Drink like a fish
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fish it out
• Fish or cut bait
• Fish out
• Fish out of water
• Fox trap
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Got bigger fish to fry
• Honey trap

• I can resist everything except temptation (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Jail bait
• Jew baiting
• Keep your trap shut
• Lead into temptation
• Like a fish out of water
• Like shooting fish in a barrel
• Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Odd fish
• Pony and trap (Cockney rhyming slang for crap)
• Pretty kettle of fish
• Queer fish
• Rise to the bait
• School of fish
• Shut your trap
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Sprat to catch a mackerel
• Take the bait
• The Flying Fisherman (Nickname of Roscoe Vernon Gaddis)
• The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
• The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra movie)
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Tourist trap
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Wet fish
• What does that have to do with the price of fish?