@oldbrookie I am Practically Perfect In Every Way. 
As we have moved on to dogs, how about -
If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.
If you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Source?
Ha! OK I’ll bite. Not much of a source, but the first time I heard it was about 25+ years ago in a senior management meeting. The only reason I was there was to take notes for my boss. And that was the response from a smart guy from the South to the negativity he got from our company to his brilliant business plan. We were wrong. So wrong.
I loved that line and have used it with delight, albeit sparingly, ever since.
“Ok I’ll bite” is an expression that you see all the time on this site. Kind of weird because it doesn’t really make sense in most spoken conversation.
It’s a fishing reference. Someone’s fishing for a particular response by throwing out some tasty bait, and the person responding “bites,” i.e. takes the bait, despite feeling a tiny bit manipulated. At least that’s how I understand it.
Heard it growing up, but not since Tompall Glaser put ‘T for Texas’ on The Outlaws album:
‘Rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log, than to stay here in Atlanta and get treated like a dirty dog.’
edited for the two l’s in Tompall.
@nottelling I understand the reference, it just seems to be especially popular on this particular forum. I’ve always wondered also if “t rolling” is a fishing reference, and “biting” as it is used here is related.
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To answer @usualhopeful 's question, the word has nothing to do with fishing; you might me think of trawling, which does have to do with fishing (and AFAIK, only fishing)… Anyway, for more on the first word, see below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
Besides trawling, one of the definitions for the other word is “fish by trailing a baited line along behind a boat,” as opposed to the net used in trawling.
And sorry for spelling around it.
The word is definitely about fishing as usualhopeful just said. Used to do it all the time.
Trawliing is doing the same thing only with a net.
Are you implying you don’t hear it often elsewhere? Maybe like a lot of the other things on this thread…it’s depends on where you live…or who your family is.
Again, how is this different from some of the other phrases we’ve been talking about?
“Ok I’ll bite” seem pretty normal to me, I know I would use it in spoken conversation.
I agree "I’ll bite = “I’ll take the bait” = fishing reference. And I hear it in spoken conversation all the time.
I don’t know that I necessarily hear “I’ll bite” a lot, but I wouldn’t bat an eyelash (ha!) at hearing it in a conversation.
We used to say that if you lie down with dogs, you’ll get up with puppies.
I think the expression is “I don’t have a dog in that fight,” not in that hunt.
Speaking of dogs:
That dog won’t hunt.
–> It just isn’t going to happen / It isn’t going to work / It doesn’t suffice.
Has anyone heard " Hard head makes for a soft bottom"?
Learn something new every day. Thanks. @usualhopeful @gouf78