fish or cut bait | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To make adecision, especially after a period ofdelay; to either take action now orforgothe opportunity.Synonym:shit or get off the potIt's time tofish or cut bait: either we buy this house now, or we must start looking for another one.1898May 18, “Merritt's Request for More Men”, inThe Day, USA, retrieved15 January 2012, page 4:The admiral . . . may stay in the bay and keep approaches to the city of Manila tightly closed for a long time to come, until perhaps some demand from the governments of Europe that the United Statesfish or cut baitcomes in such shape that it must be heeded.1923July 28, “Hylan Will Fight Subway Petition with one of his Own”, inNew York Times, retrieved15 January 2012:"The Mayor cannot straddle this question any longer—he must eitherfish or cut bait."1966March 25, “Colleges: New Name on Wellesley's Door”, inTime:"One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, tofish or cut bait, to put up or shut up," she says.2002,W. E. B. Griffin,Special Ops‎[1],→ISBN:“She told himfish or cut bait. Her and the kid, or him and the Army. He chose the Army.”

Examples:

EN: It's fish or cut bait.
ES: Es pescado o cebo cortado.
EN: Martin, you got to fish or cut bait.
ES: Martin, tienes que pescar o cortar el cebo.
EN: - Ooo, time to fish or cut bait, huh?
ES: Hay que decidirse, ¿eh?
EN: I think that it's... time for us to-- to fish or cut bait.
ES: Creo que es hora de que... Nos... decidamos.
EN: Well I think it's time to fish or cut bait.
ES: Bien. Creo que es hora de decidirse.
EN: -Time to fish or cut bait.
ES: - Es hora de pescar o ser pescado.
EN: It was like the universe was telling me to fish or cut bait. Got down on one knee.
ES: Fue como si el universo me dijera que me decida.
EN: Guys, we got a man wading into deep water out there, so we got to fish or cut bait, but we got to decide now.
ES: Gente, tenemos a un hombre adentrándose en aguas profundas ahi fuera, asi que tenemos que pescar o cortar el cebo, pero tenemos que decidirnos ya.
EN: So what you're really asking is, do we want to fish or cut bait?
ES: ¿Entonces lo que realmente estás preguntando es si queremos hacerlo o no?
ES: ¿Entonces lo que realmente estás preguntando es si queremos hacerlo o no?
EN: No, he used to say, "fish or cut bait."
ES: No, solía decir: "Pescar o cortar el cebo".
EN: That is so not... you strung her along until she told you you'd better fish or cut bait.
ES: No es así, solo le dabas largas hasta que te dijo que o ibas con todo o se acababa.
EN: - It's time to fish or cut bait.
ES: Es hora de pescar o cortar el cebo.
EN: Abe, we got to fish or cut bait.
ES: Abe, tenemos que pescar o cortar el cebo.
EN: By the end of the trip, you'll know if you need to fish or cut bait. Hmm.
ES: Al final del viaje sabrás sí hay que pescar o recortar la carnada.
EN: "Should I fish or cut bait?"
HI: 'छोड़ दूँ या चोद दूँ?

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).