Taking the bait for “the”(definite article) big bust?
I was watching a video and became curious about the use of definite article :
at 1:23
"Little does he know he's just taking the bait for the big bust"
Link to Chris Rock - True Stories of the Justice Squad - YouTube
at 1:23
I am wondering about the exact reason the definite article(instead of indefinite article "a") was used here: my guess is that "the" here means that the listeners know that he would be arrested in the end of the show story? Or does it mean that we know that in what fashion the big bus is done for this kind of things(like the way cops arrest this type of big gang boss)
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sung min Lee "Little does he know he's just taking the bait for the big bust" In my opinion, the narrator exactly knew what the bust it was, hence he used the determiner the in the noun phrase "the big bust".
- sung min Lee "Little does he know he's just taking the bait for the big bust" In my opinion, the narrator exactly knew what the bust it was, hence he used the determiner the in the noun phrase "the big bust".
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sung min Lee"Little does he know he's just taking the bait for the big bust"
In my opinion, the narrator exactly knew what the bust it was, hence he used the determiner the in the noun phrase "the big bust".
0The phrase "taking the bait" is idiomatic and is used in situations such as this. In this context, you would never hear "taking a bait." The only time you might hear the phrase "taking a bait" is in a fishing video, for example:
"Here you see the trout taking a bait that was just cast in the water."
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