swallow the bait

swallow/take the bait

to accept something that is only being offered to you so that you will do something The offer of a free radio with every television proved very popular, and hundreds of shoppers swallowed the bait.

See rise to the bait

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Raffaello	-	Italian
Saburo	sah-boo-ṙo:	Japanese
DanutĖ	-	Lithuanian
Jure	-	Slovene, Croatian
Ekene	-	Western African, Igbo
Lyuben	-	Bulgarian