Idioms

honey trap

honey trap

1. An attraction, location, or sight designed to entice people to visit it, especially for monetary gain; a tourist trap. Even though I've lived in New York City for 10 years, I've never visited the Statue of Liberty. It's just a big honey trap, in my opinion. A: "I was thinking we could go see the World's Largest Ball of Twine today!" B: "Oh, Tom, that's just a silly honey trap. There are much better ways to spend a Saturday than that while you're in town." There are some fun things to do there, for sure. But for how much they charge you just to get into the park these days, it's really turned into a big honey trap.
2. The use of an attractive person, especially a woman, to extract information from someone by means of seduction. Though it feels a little demeaning, I know that being used as a honey trap against the mafia leader is for the greater good. The target is especially susceptible to booze and beautiful women. That's where you come in as the honey trap, Marlena, and get him talking. A: "You were supposed to be the honey trap!" B: "Yeah, well, unfortunately, he was more interested in playing blackjack than talking to a stranger!"
See also: honey, trap
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References in periodicals archive
Dawn starts to become concerned about just how dangerous this honey trap really is and ups the price.
Hers was a very 21st century honey trap too, with those destroyers of many a relationship - social media and a mobile phone.
Bajwa claims, the professional women befriend men after luring them into a honey trap. These men would then receive obscene videos and pictures from the women.
Set up by the team behind NQ brunch favourite The Pen & Pencil, Honey Trap Club (HTC) can be found just off Stevenson Square.
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This is not the first case of an IAF officer allegedly sharing information with ISI after falling victim to a "honey trap".
It would be interesting to establish just how many Town fans were caught in this 'honey trap.' David Mann Meltham
American Honey is spellbinding, spell-breaking cinema, a honey trap for the senses, too seductive to refuse.
She later denied a claim that she plotted to set him up in a honey trap with a lap dancer.
POLICE are hunting two men after an internet Romeo was lured to a Birmingham flat in a "honey trap" sting and held captive for nine hours.
Ayoung woman wept as she was found guilty of setting a honey trap for a professional gambler who was kicked to death for the sake of his winnings.
A PROFESSIONAL poker player was kicked to death after being lured into a honey trap by a woman, a court heard.
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One officer said: "We were watching them for a month and they were so useless, we thought it was a TV prank show but they meant to go ahead." Jumbo honey trap Wildlife workers in Nepal have turned to desperate measures to try to catch a killer elephant.
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