📚 Put the bite on, phrase. ❓ Definition (North American, Australian, New Zealand • informal): Borrow or extort money from. ❗️ Examples: 1. A deadbeat diner tried to put the bite on a restaurant. 2. Damn, I thought, putting the bite on me for food money. 3. I'm no elitist and I'm all for genuine homeless people getting a better deal all round, but it beggared belief to see him shopping with the people he was putting the bite on just minutes before. 4. It is scandalous is that while Catholic schools across the country have missed out on anywhere between $560 million and $2-3 billion over the past four years, they have put the bite on parents to make up some of the difference. 5. Meanwhile, the governor - through a special economic development fund overseen by his office - also has been putting the bite on a host of companies and other special interests to contribute to his pet cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic