Neometric wrote:
It's waiting with "bated" breath, not baited. This isn't fly fishing.
Be advised.
That is good to know but I'm laying in wait with baited breath for the sport of it.
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bate 1 (bt)
tr.v. bat·ed, bat·ing, bates
1. To lessen the force or intensity of; moderate: "To his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story" (George Eliot). See Usage Note at bait1.
2. To take away; subtract.
[Middle English baten, short for abaten; see abate.]
bate 2 also bait (bt)
intr.v. bat·ed also bait·ed, bat·ing also bait·ing, bates also baits
To flap the wings wildly or frantically. Used of a falcon.
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I'm on a fishing expedition haven't had any nibbles yet but for sure one will take the bait hook line and sinker!
I don't have any plans on lessening the impact of the besmirched I'm planning to lay it on and thick mud will be on everybody from city hall to all the businesses and the homeless.
For the sport of it every day the people of Hammond wake running to get the news paper to find out what those Robert Taylor homes refuges from Chicago have done in Gary as if they don't live in your neighborhoods too and then they proceed to besmirch the whole city of Gary and it's people.
I have become accustomed to it.
For the sport of it