Phrases. 1  fish or cut bait. 2  informal Stop vacillating and decide to act on or disengage from something. âwhen it comes to flagging brands, companies are being forced to fish or cut baitâ. âBy the second season of any TV show, you usually know if it's going to fish or cut bait.â.
Meaning and Origin Recorded as Larn, Larne, Larner, Lardner, and Lerner, this is usually a surname of English origins. It has at least three possible sources, each with its own distinct derivation. Firstly it may be an early medieval English occupational surname for a scholar or a schoolmaster, derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century word leornian.
Where did the last name Lytle come from? Where did the last name Kerr come from?  English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by  a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, northern Middle  English kerr (Old Norse kjarr). A legendâ¦ grew up that  the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from  Gaelic cearr 'wrong-handed', 'left-handed'.