After two years, I had to fish or cut bait.
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"You have to fish or cut bait," the source said.
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In the States, we'd say it's time to fish or cut bait.
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"Now it's time to fish or cut bait," said Republican Senator Mike Rounds.
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Dallas, Houston will eventually have to make a fish-or-cut-bait decision on moving forward with it.
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On the manufacturing number, the kind of fish or cut bait [number] is 42.9 and we're in 47.8.
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By mid-June of 2017, they were facing an imminent deadline from Judge Hanen to fish or cut bait.
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" Walgreens Boots Alliance: "Look, I've got to tell you, they said to the government, 'It's fish or cut bait by July.
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"It was time to fish or cut bait," said Marc Glimcher, president of Pace worldwide, which has branches in New York, London, Hong Kong and Beijing.
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Ahead of Sunday's deadline for new American tariffs on Chinese goods, "it's fish or cut bait time and I think that the cut bait is, 'Thanks for nothing China,'" Cramer said.
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We're nearing fish-or-cut-bait time: Via The Hill's Rebecca Kheel, the deadline set by President Trump to either change the Iran nuclear deal or effectively withdraw from it is nearing.
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"At this point, it's time for Walgreens to fish or cut bait; that's why I'm so glad the company reportedly just gave the Federal Trade Commission a three-month deadline after which it's going to just walk away," Cramer said.
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So, you know, Congress has got to decide to fish or cut bait on this and to continually threaten the administration or members of the administration with impeachment and contempt and not follow through doesn&apost seem to be getting them anywhere.
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Fish or cut bait is a common English language colloquial expression, dating back to the 19th-century United States, that refers to division of complementary tasks. The use of this expression has expanded over time, sometimes including the ideas of swift decision-making (to act or not to act), and cautions against procrastination and/or indecisiveness.
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The first regular meeting was scheduled for November 14 at the Reed house. It was announced that "no charter member will have a vote unless he has paid at least $5 of the initiation, which is $15." All persons becoming members after January 1, 1895, were to be "charged $20 initiation fee and $5 semi-annual dues." At this point it was time to fish or cut bait.
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Cushing threatened to have the Judge impeached. Hubbell's response to the threat was, "...Cushing has commenced a suit in the United States Court...[he] must either fish or cut bait." Hubbell's use of the expression implied that Cushing should either act on his threat of impeachment (fish), or, if unwilling, withdraw the threat and proceed with the case (cut bait). In this example, the expression is similar in intent to another common colloquialism: put up or shut up.
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Donald smells a rat lurking within this story, but finally accepts the fat fee offered to keep Bertha happy. The attempt to protect the client has unexpected side effects, including several women removing their garments for one reason or other, a horrifically false accusation against the straight-shooting Donald and the exciting courtroom climax he engineers in the above-mentioned trial. # Fish or Cut Bait (1963) William Morrow and Company, April 1963 When Cool and Lam are hired for day-and-night coverage of a harassed woman, a tortuous tale involving a high-class 'escort service' unfolds. Donald is dismissed from the case, but inserts himself back in self-defence after the madam comes to an untimely end.
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However, with descriptions of behavior such as "Jim walked through the door", one starts to notice differences such as failure of commutativity, for example the conjunction of "Jim opened the door" with "Jim walked through the door" in that order is not equivalent to their conjunction in the other order, since and usually means and then in such cases. Questions can be similar: the order "Is the sky blue, and why is the sky blue?" makes more sense than the reverse order. Conjunctive commands about behavior are like behavioral assertions, as in get dressed and go to school. Disjunctive commands such love me or leave me or fish or cut bait tend to be asymmetric via the implication that one alternative is less preferable.
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