Usually means: Reacting to provocation as intended.
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  1. rise to the bait: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rise to the bait: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rise to the bait: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. rise to the bait: Wiktionary

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  1. rise to the bait: Idioms

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▸ verb:  Synonym of take the bait

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take the bait, bait, jump on the boat, tantalize, get one's hooks into, angle, bate, hook, hook in, come up and bite, more...

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Similar:
take the bait, bait, jump on the boat, tantalize, get one's hooks into, angle, bate, hook, hook in, come up and bite, more...



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