Definitions
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- adjective Relating to use of
bait and switch (offering one attractive exchange initially, but not honoring the offer) in business, politics, and elsewhere.
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Examples
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This trick—exploiting the desires and weaknesses of the principals to get them to do as we wish—was called bait-and-switch.
Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010
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What does her linguistic bait-and-switch tell voters about her?
Robin Lakoff: The Semantics Of "Submission" Robin Lakoff 2011
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During the years of the housing bubble, blacks who qualified for standard mortgage loans were heavily targeted for bait-and-switch sub-prime loans.
Robert Kuttner: Black and Bleak Robert Kuttner 2011
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During the years of the housing bubble, blacks who qualified for standard mortgage loans were heavily targeted for bait-and-switch sub-prime loans.
Robert Kuttner: Black and Bleak Robert Kuttner 2011
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During the years of the housing bubble, blacks who qualified for standard mortgage loans were heavily targeted for bait-and-switch sub-prime loans.
Robert Kuttner: Black and Bleak Robert Kuttner 2011
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What does her linguistic bait-and-switch tell voters about her?
Robin Lakoff: The Semantics Of "Submission" Robin Lakoff 2011
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I had read reviews that were fairly positive, but also read of the scandalous bait-and-switch.
Sierra missed, parte dos! A blind tasting of Sierra Carche | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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What does her linguistic bait-and-switch tell voters about her?
Robin Lakoff: The Semantics Of "Submission" Robin Lakoff 2011
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Sorry, but I guessed the bait-and-switch just when the second interpolation about cobra flowers hit in.
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While Broadway audiences may have found such bait-and-switch tactics to be titillating back in the benighted days of "Victor/Victoria," they're now more than capable of taking homosexuality straight, and the clumsy coyness with which Messrs.
'Clear Day,' Muddled Effort Terry Teachout 2011
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