honey trap

See also: honeytrap and honey-trap

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Popularised by John le Carré in the novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974).

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honey trap (plural honey traps) (idiomatic)

  1. The use of a romantic and/or sexual relationship to entice a person into revealing secret information.

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