Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is idioms 33. All right the idiom today is bait-and-switch. Okay let's look at
the definition there's actually two ways that it could be used. First off if we say something
is a bait-and-switch. Any practice that deceives where the information
originally presented turns out to be untrue. Okay or this is also a selling
tactic sometimes by some companies but it is deceptive. A tricky way of of
trying to sell where a product is advertised at a very low price and when
the customer comes in to buy it a salesperson tries to persuade a customer
to buy a similar product that is very expensive. If some companies will do this
they'll advertise something very very low just to get people in the door and
then when they're in the door they try to work on them. So let's look at the
first example. I thought I was going to buy something on sale but the salesman
convinced me the product was of lower quality and talked me into buying a more
expensive one. So that's what they'll probably do. Maybe they'll start talking
to you. Well why do you need it ? Why do you want it ? Oh no well this one may not
be the best for you. I think you should get this one. And of course then they try
to sell you the better one. Or perhaps by the time you got in they say oh now I'm
sorry we have no more left, but you know why don't you look at this one ? I'll
try to sell you this one. Where maybe sometimes maybe they had none or they
only had one or two and they knew that they were going to get a lot more people
coming in with the sale but they had so this is again this is a very common sort
of a tricky way of selling to people. All right what's so so anyway here this was
like an A and B so a said not and then B sounds B responds it sounds like they
pulled a bait and switch on you. So maybe he's familiar with this. Let's look at a
second example here. Yeah according to a Bible story,
Jacob agreed to work for seven years to marry Rachel who he was greatly
attracted to. Yeah so he made it he made an agreement you know back in those days
with the father. He says well if you work really hard for seven years, I'll allow
you to marry her. And he agreed to let him marry Rachel.
However the father felt obligated to marry off his older daughter Leia first.
On the night before the wedding he got Jacob drunk and covered Leia's face
with a veil. In the morning Jacob discovered he married Leia and not
Rachel not the woman that he he didn't mind working so hard for. It was a bait
and switch. All right so what are you doing this situation now. I guess Jacob
still really wanted to marry Rachel. You know this in the older times from the
Bible. You know at that time I guess a Jewish guy could have had more than one
wife. He could have had a number of wives. So he ended up agreeing he had to work
another seven years to marry Rachel as well. I guess he could have got angry
could have tried to you know who the first wife but it was the sister of the
woman he wants to marry. And he still really wants to marry her so the father
actually got 14 years out of Jacob working hard and he married off both of
his daughters to Jacob. But really he kind of pulled the bait-and-switch on
him. He wasn't really interested in the older daughter to begin with. He really
wanted Rachel that was the one that he was attracted to. Okay well I hope you
enjoyed the story. I hope you understand bait and switch. So it could be used several
ways. It is used as a selling tactic and it can use be used in any sort of
situation where again the information originally presented turned out to be
not correct, or not true. Okay thank you for your time. Bye