Tease Phrases

Phrases

• Alligator bait (a reference to the alleged practice of using black babies to lure alligators into traps)
• Bad time
• Bait and switch
• Beyond a joke
• Brain teaser
• By way of a joke
• Cat and mouse game
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Cock teaser
• Cut bait
• Fish or cut bait
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Inside joke
• It's no joke
• Jail bait
• Joke around
• No joke
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Rise to the bait
• Sick joke
• Since Hector was a pup
• Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
• Take the bait
• The Badger State (Nickname of the US state of Wisconsin)
• The joke's over
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• You're having a laugh (A catchphrase from Extras)
• You're having me on