I'll bite

English Etymology Suggesting a fish taking bait. Compare en troll, en bait. Phrase phr en colloquial Indicating that one doubts that a question is being asked in seriousness or good faith, but is willing to respond in earnest. en —Why did the chicken cross the road? —OK, I'll bite. Why did it cross the road? Brian Fung Everything you need to know about in-flight cellphone rules https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/21/everything-you-need-to-know-about-in-flight-cell-phone-rules/ https://archive.ph/FoVIk 10 August 2023 21 November 2013 Are there security concerns we haven't thought of? What if someone, I don't know, puts a bomb someplace, hops on a plane and detonates it remotely? ¶ Sounds like you've been watching a few too many action movies. Okay, I'll bite. en Devon Maloney Heroes Reborn Recap: One of Us, One of Them Vulture https://web.archive.org/web/20220814125806/https://www.vulture.com/2015/10/heroes-reborn-recap-season-1-episode-2.html 2 October 2015 Who is trying to nab Tommy? What is his mom's power?! ¶ All right, fine. I'll bite. Barbara Ellen John Lydon: 'Don't become entrenched in one opinion and get stuck there for ever' https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/11/john-lydon-interview-i-could-be-wrong-book-nora-wife-carer-trump-brexit https://archive.ph/tpgxO 15 October 2023 11 October 2020 OK, I'll bite: political correctness may not be perfect, but isn't its aim to empower and protect? "It's taken too far, though. Death by committee, trying to slam your dictates into another person's face. That's not healthy." en colloquial Indicating that one is willing to engage with a potentially difficult or inconvenient situation. en This isn't usually my type of movie, but I'll bite. https://web.archive.org/web/20230810222947/https://www.nytimes.com/1932/12/25/archives/in-defense-of-engineers-they-are-presented-as-conscientious.html 1932-12-25 E2 letter In Defense of Engineers: They Are Presented as Conscientious, Hard-Working, Sympathetic Scientists T. Hayden Hamilton To the Editor of The New York Times: Referring to your "Topics of The Times" leading off with "Science in the Saddle," I can only believe such an article was printed for the sole purpose of drawing fire. I'll bite and I hope others more competent than I am have deluged you with rebuttals of absurd statements made therein. en Chris Kohler I Don't Need Your Torture, DuckTales Remastered Wired https://web.archive.org/web/20230207130930/https://www.wired.com/2013/08/ducktales-remastered/ San Francisco, C.A. Condé Nast Publications 13 August 2013 1059-1028 24479723 Designers made their games really hard because their games were really short, and they had to encourage you to play them over and over. But okay. I'll bite. Let's try a game with NES-era difficulty. So I go back into the Amazon. This time I'm a lot better. en Sober Stick Figure: A Unique and Hilarious Story of Alcoholism and Recovery w:HuffPost https://web.archive.org/web/20230810224358/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sober-stick-figure-a-unique-and-hilarious-story-of_b_577bfd63e4b00a3ae4ce64ef 5 July 2016 As a recovery advocate and blogger, I get a lot of requests from authors who want me to read and write about their books. Most of the time, I decline. But every once in a while, if the book seems interesting enough, I'll bite. This is one of those times I'm glad I did. en Dan Ozzi The Whole Weezer/"Africa" Thing Was My Fault and I'm So Sorry VICE https://web.archive.org/web/20230509161402/https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbwmj9/the-whole-weezer-africa-thing-was-my-fault-and-im-so-sorry 25 January 2019 "Please RT if you want to help make Ohio teen @weezerafrica's simple, wholesome dream come true of seeing rock band @Weezer cover Africa by Toto," he tweeted. Luke is an occasional Noisey writer, and is very adept at wandering into the dark rooms of the internet and causing trouble in them. So my interest was piqued. "OK, I'll bite," I thought, and gave Luke's tweet the one true currency left in our capitalist hell world: my Click. en en Carol Midgley w:Iain Duncan Smith House pomposity is one of the few remaining joys in British life w:The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/house-pomposity-is-one-of-the-few-remaining-joys-in-british-life-6gfcwc6cg https://archive.ph/uMGyZ 1 February 2023 London w:News UK 1 February 2023 0140-0460 1071756813 I suspect fruity language is lavishly used on building sites and in 10 Downing Street, but not so much in middle-ranking jobs. Iain Duncan Smith once told a Treasury mandarin on the phone "If you ever speak to my officials like that again I'll bite your balls off and send them to you in a box." Usage notes Now usually preceded by en OK (and other forms), as in OK, I'll bite. References https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I%27ll+bite